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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. What does Marya tell her family about her recovery?
(a) She hopes to go home.
(b) She is getting worse.
(c) She is getting better.
(d) She wants to go back to the center.

2. What does Marya do when she looks in the mirror?
(a) Thinks she looks beautiful.
(b) Remembers that she should not eat.
(c) Checks on how fat she has gotten.
(d) Wishes she had a boyfriend.

3. Whom does Marya move in with when she turns eighteen?
(a) Her boyfriend.
(b) Her friend Sybil.
(c) A random man she meets.
(d) A childhood friend.

4. How does Marya chicken out and not take advantage of her opportunity to get better?
(a) She takes advantage of her new opportunity to grow.
(b) She hides behind the friends she makes.
(c) She drinks massive amounts or water and hides laxatives.
(d) She refuses to leave her room.

5. What does her husband do?
(a) Cares for her.
(b) Creates a safe place for Mayra to be.
(c) Makes her believe in his love for her.
(d) He refuses to mention the weight loss.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mayra moves out of her parents' house, what does she stop doing?

2. At Lowe House, what is the approach of the therapists?

3. As a child, Marya feels as though she is scared of____________.

4. What are some of Marya's rituals?

5. Why is the act of feeling bones exciting for Marya?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Marya feels like she is having a nervous breakdown, what is really happening?

2. What will Marya always worry about?

3. Whom does she now harass to talk to about her weight?

4. What does the antibiotic do to Marya's system?

5. To Marya, what were eating disorders an excuse for?

6. What gives Marya the ability to carry on with her life and fight everyday?

7. Slowly, what does Marya begin to think about her skinny looks?

8. How does Marya's experience at Lowe House differ from Methodist Hospital?

9. What marks the point where Marya's life starts to fall apart again?

10. How does Marya begin leading a double life in this section of the novel?

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