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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 has Marya realized about life over the years?

2. How does Marya chicken out and not take advantage of her opportunity to get better?

3. What is the main part of this Interlude?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Marya almost refuse to take?

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

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

7. How does Marya's experience at Lowe House differ from Methodist Hospital?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why are the anorexics and bulimics working against each other while they are in rehab? How does this help or hinder their therapeutic process at Lowe House?

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

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?

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