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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. Where does Marya convince her parents to send her?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Florida.
(c) California.
(d) New York.

2. What happens when Jane and Marya meet?
(a) Marya thinks that Jane is having a stroke.
(b) Marya becomes happier.
(c) Marya becomes scared.
(d) Marya believes Jane is having a heart attack.

3. At the end of the chapter, what have Marya's parents decided they should do with her?
(a) Send her to live with cousins.
(b) Put her in an eating disorder treatment center.
(c) Send her to her grandmother.
(d) Put her in a foster care home.

4. While in this location, who watches Marya?
(a) No one.
(b) A private nurse.
(c) The staff.
(d) A group of doctors and nurses.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Marya show the doctor?

4. When Marya is ________ she becomes pregnant?

5. How did Mayra's parents try to reward her?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What causes Marya to be obsessed by sex?

3. As a child, what does Marya want besides a perfect body?

4. What action gets the story moving quickly?

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

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

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

8. What also leads Mayra do develop a strange relationship to food?

9. How does the novel begin?

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

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