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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marya welcome about her stay at the hospital?

2. What does Marya have to live with everyday?

3. What does Marya show the doctor?

4. Where industry did Mayra's parents work in?

5. What does Marya call her doctor in the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. As a child, what does Marya want besides a perfect body?

2. What is very different about life in the clinic and how it might make a person feel like they have no privacy?

3. What does Marya feel at the age of five and why?

4. What details and statistics does Marya give in this section of the book?

5. What does Marya realize about those around her from her past?

6. Why does Marya decide to switch from bulimia to anorexia?

7. What is a big reason that Marya likes to have an eating disorder?

8. What causes Marya to be obsessed by sex?

9. When Marya looks at her file, what does she see?

10. How else does the treatment center cause Marya anxiety?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mother/daughter relationships are unique to the people that participate in the relationship.

1) Describe Marya and her mother's relationship.

2) How do Marya and her mother effectively or ineffectively communicate with each other?

3) How could they have improved their relationship?

Essay Topic 2

Compare Marya's relationship with her father to her relationship with her mother. How did the two use Marya to get what they wanted?

Essay Topic 3

As the novel reaches its climax, Marya's weight plummets. How does the author use this information to build suspense and propel her plot along? What literary techniques does the author employ? Do you think he is successful?

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