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

2. What makes getting Marya's teeth extracted difficult?
(a) Her eating disorders.
(b) Her ambivalent feelings of being touched.
(c) Her feelings toward all doctors.
(d) Her fear of the dentist.

3. Where does Marya decide to go to school?
(a) Rice University.
(b) New York University.
(c) Washington University in St. Louis.
(d) American University in Washington D.C.

4. What is the main part of this Interlude?
(a) Marya's memories of recovering from an eating disorder.
(b) Marya's memories of her childhood.
(c) Marya's memories of trying to fit in with other people.
(d) Marya's memories of meeting her husband.

5. What are some of Marya's rituals?
(a) Waiting until her parents have left to eat.
(b) Only eating when she has performed certain tasks.
(c) Washing her hands constantly and straightening her space.
(d) Working too much and forgetting to eat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After leaving Lowe house and moving in with her parents, what happens to Marya?

3. When Marya is six, what does she do with her life plan?

4. In the Afterword, what is wrong with Marya's body?

5. By Christmas, what does she weigh?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Marya almost refuse to take?

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

6. What does Marya wish that her husband would notice?

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

8. While at school, what does Marya begin to do to herself?

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

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

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