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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a result of her eating disorder, what would often happen to Marya?
(a) She would often fall.
(b) She would cough up blood.
(c) She would bite her fingernails.
(d) She would hit others.

2. What doctor will not help Marya at Methodist?
(a) Dr. J.
(b) Dr. Travis.
(c) Dr. T.
(d) Dr. James.

3. What does Marya begin to crave?
(a) Salt.
(b) Water.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Coke.

4. To Mayra, what does sex do for her?
(a) Allows her to control men.
(b) Is pleasurable for her.
(c) Makes her feel trapped.
(d) Helps her feel a connection to men.

5. Instead of going to school, how does Marya spend her time?
(a) Reading her books at home.
(b) Reading articles on the internet.
(c) She goes to her grandparents' house.
(d) With her parents and work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since many patients are bulimic, what must the doctors keep an eye on?

2. Just as Marya uses Bulimia to fill an emotional void, she uses _____ in the same way.

3. What happens at therapy with her parents?

4. Why does Mayra realize that she does not like to be touched?

5. When looking through her old files, what does Marya think?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Marya realize about those around her from her past?

2. What does Marya realize about the girl's folder?

3. When a friend finally tells a school counselor about Marya's problem, how does Marya feel?

4. As a child, how does Marya act when she is alone?

5. When was the interlude to the book written?

6. What causes Marya to be obsessed by sex?

7. How does the novel begin?

8. What action gets the story moving quickly?

9. Why does Marya decide to switch from bulimia to anorexia?

10. What is very different about life in the clinic and how it might make a person feel like they have no privacy?

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