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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is very rampant and obvious at Interlochen?
(a) New beginnings.
(b) Sex and drug abuse.
(c) Eating disorders.
(d) Jealousy.

2. When looking through her old files, what does Marya think?
(a) She hates her family for not helping her sooner.
(b) She misses her old life.
(c) She is looking at a stanger's files.
(d) She hates her old life.

3. Since many patients are bulimic, what must the doctors keep an eye on?
(a) Patients throwing up in the bathroom.
(b) Patients gaining weight too quickly.
(c) Patients eating too much.
(d) Patients taking laxatives.

4. While in this location, who watches Marya?
(a) The staff.
(b) A group of doctors and nurses.
(c) A private nurse.
(d) No one.

5. Where does Marya convince her parents to send her?
(a) New York.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) California.
(d) Florida.

6. What does Mayra still struggle with?
(a) Her feelings.
(b) Her parents.
(c) Her eating disorders.
(d) Her insomnia.

7. As a result of her eating disorder, what would often happen to Marya?
(a) She would cough up blood.
(b) She would hit others.
(c) She would often fall.
(d) She would bite her fingernails.

8. To this day, what does Marya say she misses about bulimia?
(a) The ability to rid her body of food.
(b) The way it connects her to her body.
(c) The ritual of the bulimia.
(d) The feelings of passion that it arises.

9. At the age of 4, what does Marya claim to be?
(a) Ugly.
(b) Fat.
(c) Unsuccessful.
(d) Stupid.

10. Why does Mayra realize that she does not like to be touched?
(a) She tries to dislike being touched because she yearns for it so much.
(b) She becomes fearful when she is touched.
(c) She was sexually abused.
(d) She does not like for people to get close to her.

11. How long does Marya wait to tell her mother she started her period?
(a) A year.
(b) A couple of days.
(c) Six months.
(d) A month.

12. How old is Marya when she begins to enter puberty?
(a) 9.
(b) 14.
(c) 8.
(d) 15.

13. Marya goes to the doctor complaining of ________________.
(a) Intense sweating.
(b) Her social life.
(c) Her anxiety.
(d) Headaches and backaches.

14. Why is bulimia more realistic than anorexia?
(a) Bulimia can be sustained for longer.
(b) Bulimia allows a person to give in to a body's desires for a short time.
(c) Anorexia makes other people nervous.
(d) Bulimia is easier to hide.

15. Who persuades her to tell her parents about the disease?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) A school counselor.
(c) Her therapist.
(d) A good friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. To live up to the rumors around her, what does Marya begin to do?

2. How old is Marya when she becomes a fully developed woman?

3. To Marya, what does life seem to be?

4. What happens at therapy with her parents?

5. What does the introduction to the story show?

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