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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Interlude - November 5, 1996.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the anorexics think of the bulimics?
(a) They treat them like family.
(b) The bulimics can never get as skinny as the anorexics.
(c) They pity them.
(d) They are weak.

2. What keeps Marya eating?
(a) Her dark passenger.
(b) She realizes what it is like to be a healthy human being.
(c) Her husband's will.
(d) The doctors from the hospital.

3. How did Mayra's parents try to reward her?
(a) With food.
(b) With verbal praise.
(c) With love.
(d) With presents.

4. Just as Marya uses Bulimia to fill an emotional void, she uses _____ in the same way.
(a) Food.
(b) Music.
(c) Love.
(d) Sex.

5. How did Mayra's parents use Mayra?
(a) To live out their own childhood dreams.
(b) To get money from the government.
(c) To get money from their parents.
(d) To manipulate each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does she worry about?

2. Does Marya think that eating disorders occur often in this country?

3. Who does Marya often compare herself to in the book?

4. What does Marya believe about her body?

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

(see the answer key)

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