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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anorexics believe that they can live ______.
(a) With full control.
(b) Without their bodies.
(c) Without the consent of others.
(d) In their bodies.

2. What does Marya realize about her lies?
(a) Lies became a lifestyle.
(b) How obvious her lies were to her friends and family.
(c) How well she lied.
(d) Lying created many of her problems.

3. What does Marya reveal to her psychiatrist?
(a) She has a lot of unprotected sex.
(b) She hates her body.
(c) She is crazy.
(d) She is bulimic.

4. As a girl, how did Marya react to the way she was treating her body?
(a) She hated herself for treating her body poorly.
(b) She became depressed.
(c) She showed no sorrow.
(d) She became isolated from others.

5. 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 does not like for people to get close to her.
(d) She was sexually abused.

6. What does the introduction to the story show?
(a) Eating disorders are easily managed.
(b) Anorexia has serious consequences.
(c) Eating disorders are not real disorders.
(d) Most people have an eating disorder.

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

8. To live up to the rumors around her, what does Marya begin to do?
(a) Talk back to teachers.
(b) Sleep with skanky boys.
(c) Try to do better in schoolk.
(d) Act like a snob.

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

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

11. What is not enough to cure eating disorders?
(a) Therapy.
(b) Pills.
(c) Pills and positive communication.
(d) Help from friends and family.

12. Instead of focusing on getting better, what does Mayra practice while at Methodist's Treatment center?
(a) Her writing ability.
(b) Her acting skills.
(c) Her makeup skills.
(d) Her reading skills.

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

14. What happens during Marya's pregnancy?
(a) She becomes very sick.
(b) Her body aborts her baby.
(c) She holds the baby until she is 6 months.
(d) Her father beats her causing her to loose the baby.

15. When Marya tries to dream big, what do her parents tell her?
(a) To be more realistic.
(b) All of her dreams will come true.
(c) To keep dreaming.
(d) She can be whatever she wants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is her current weight?

2. To Marya, bulimia represents _________.

3. How old was Mayra when she became anorexic?

4. Marya goes to the doctor complaining of ________________.

5. How long does Marya wait to tell her mother she started her period?

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