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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 keeps Marya eating?
(a) Her husband's will.
(b) The doctors from the hospital.
(c) She realizes what it is like to be a healthy human being.
(d) Her dark passenger.

2. What does Marya like about her body?
(a) She can use it to make her husband do whatever she wants.
(b) She can completely control it.
(c) She can feel the bones showing again.
(d) It feels stong.

3. At Lowe House, what is the approach of the therapists?
(a) To trust the patient's judgment.
(b) To monitor the patient's every move.
(c) To care about the patients as victims and people.
(d) To treat the patients poorly.

4. What does Marya realize makes her strong?
(a) Determination to take control of the eating disorder.
(b) Food.
(c) Playing with men's emotions.
(d) The feelings of power other people give her.

5. Where does Marya find herself in 1991?
(a) At Methodist Hospital.
(b) At home with her parents.
(c) In college.
(d) At Lowe House.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first time her parents leave Marya alone, what happens?

2. What happens the second weekend that Marya is left alone?

3. What is the main part of this Interlude?

4. Because she is alive, Marya feels like she needs to_________.

5. Why does Marya stop eating in the cafeteria?

Short Essay Questions

1. What will Marya always worry about?

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

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

4. What does Duane's hug provide for Marya?

5. Why do Marya's bad habits with food quickly come back?

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

7. In Interlude-Present Day, what does Marya discuss?

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

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

10. How does Marya attempt to trick the doctors, her parents, and her friends into thinking she is healthy?

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