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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. Marya believes that eating disorders are ____________.
(a) A way to be perfect.
(b) Addictions.
(c) Excuses.
(d) Nuisances.

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

3. When she became pregnant, what didn't Marya know about?
(a) That she could get pregnant from sex.
(b) The birth control pill.
(c) Birth Control.
(d) Condoms.

4. When looking through her old files, what does Marya think?
(a) She hates her family for not helping her sooner.
(b) She misses her old life.
(c) She hates her old life.
(d) She is looking at a stanger's files.

5. Before she leaves for winter break, what is Marya eating?
(a) Only fruit and vegetables.
(b) Vegetables only.
(c) Cream, carrot sticks, celery sticks, and mustard.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. To Marya, what goes hand and hand with being rich or wealthy?

2. To this day, what does Marya say she misses about bulimia?

3. As a result of her eating disorder, what would often happen to Marya?

4. What does Marya welcome about her stay at the hospital?

5. How old was Mayra when she became bulimic?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a big reason that Marya likes to have an eating disorder?

2. Why is Marya writing this novel?

3. Why is a school for the arts an easy place to hide an eating disorder?

4. What details and statistics does Marya give in this section of the book?

5. When was the interlude to the book written?

6. How does the novel begin?

7. What does Marya explain about anorexics and how their minds work?

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

9. What action gets the story moving quickly?

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

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