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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. Marya goes to the doctor complaining of ________________.

2. Why does Marya believe that being wealth rather than poverty leads to being thin?

3. To calm herself when she is alone at home after school, what does Marya do at first?

4. When looking through her old files, what does Marya think?

5. Growing up, how does Mayra feel in her body?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Marya use besides bulimia to fill a void in her life?

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

3. To add to her sex and eating addictions, what else happens to Marya?

4. What actions affect Marya while growing up?

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

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

7. When Marya is about to leave for her new school, what does she feel?

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

9. What also leads Mayra do develop a strange relationship to food?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Marya moves back into her parents' house while taking class at a university what happens to her? Why do her old habits return? What should her parents have done to promote her continued success and rehabilitation?

Essay Topic 2

Marya explains that anorexics have more control than bulimics. Anorexics are capable of completely neglecting their body. They also think they can exist without their bodies. What does this reasoning mean? How can someone live without their body?

Essay Topic 3

1) Collectively, do men have a positive or negative influence on Marya's life?

2) How does Marya use men negatively?

3) What male has had the most positive effect on Marya's life?

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