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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 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.

2. What happens the second weekend that Marya is left alone?
(a) She brings her boyfriend from California to see her.
(b) She brings a stranger home and has sex with him all weekend.
(c) She eats everything in the house.
(d) She brings a friend to stay with her.

3. When Marya goes to the hospital weighing 82 pounds, the doctor suggests that she try to gain weight. What does this show?
(a) The lack of understanding about eating disorders in the medical field.
(b) He does not care about patients with eating disorders.
(c) He sees Marya's problem as short term.
(d) He is not a good doctor.

4. What is the smartest thing that someone can do for someone else recovering from an eating disorder?
(a) Holding firm with them.
(b) Not allowing them to hide their actions.
(c) All are correct.
(d) Not applauding their weight loss.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To feel better, what does Marya decide to do?

2. What does Marya do when she looks in the mirror?

3. What does she worry about?

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

5. Why does Marya want to stay where she is?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Marya realize about her desire to lose weight?

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

(see the answer keys)

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