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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. Who picks Marya up off the highway?
(a) The cops.
(b) Her step-brothers.
(c) Her cousins.
(d) Her parents.

2. What does this person think about Marya's actions towards food?
(a) Crazy.
(b) Should stop right away.
(c) Easy to change.
(d) Normal.

3. Even though she is still in recovery, what does she have to think hard about to break?
(a) Her minimalist eating.
(b) Her crazed feelings.
(c) Her manic thoughts.
(d) Her throwing up.

4. When Marya visits home, what makes her parents realize she is not getting better?
(a) She is caught in a lie.
(b) The pipes burst from all of her purging.
(c) They hear her throwing up in the bathroom.
(d) She is too thin.

5. What lie does Mayra create to leave?
(a) She needs to be with her parents to survive.
(b) She says she was sexually abused as a child.
(c) She promises not to abuse herself anymore.
(d) She says that someone in the treatment center has been abusing her.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Marya goes to the hospital weighing 82 pounds, the doctor suggests that she try to gain weight. What does this show?

2. What is the tone of this Interlude?

3. Although Marya is dating and making new friends at school, what happens at night?

4. What makes getting Marya's teeth extracted difficult?

5. The antibiotic that the doctor gives Marya _______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Marya decide to visit Kathi?

2. How does this person not oblige Marya's whims?

3. How does 1991 get off to a good start for Marya?

4. What are Marya's main reasons for not committing suicide or giving up on living?

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

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

7. While going to American University, what happens to Marya's body and mind?

8. When does Marya's brother finally realize how thin Marya is?

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

10. What body systems do not work right as a result of Marya's disorders?

(see the answer keys)

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