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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Marya want to stay where she is?
(a) She is afraid that she will be scorned elsewhere.
(b) It provides her with a sense of security.
(c) She likes her bedroom there.
(d) She likes the friends she has made.

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

3. When Marya's brother Paul hugs her goodbye, what does he realize?
(a) How skinny Marya has gotten.
(b) Marya is having tremors.
(c) Marya is numb to feelings.
(d) How fragile Marya seems to be.

4. What does Marya want from her family?
(a) For them to respect her.
(b) For them to care for her.
(c) For them to say she looks skinnier.
(d) For them to love her.

5. What does Marya begin to lose her control over?
(a) Time.
(b) Ability to write.
(c) Ability to walk.
(d) Sleep.

6. How will Marya change her life soon?
(a) She will fall deeper into herself.
(b) She will be forced to go to another facility.
(c) She will willingly go back into treatment.
(d) She will not be able to change.

7. Whom does Marya move in with when she turns eighteen?
(a) A random man she meets.
(b) Her friend Sybil.
(c) Her boyfriend.
(d) A childhood friend.

8. What makes getting Marya's teeth extracted difficult?
(a) Her feelings toward all doctors.
(b) Her ambivalent feelings of being touched.
(c) Her fear of the dentist.
(d) Her eating disorders.

9. What happens the second weekend that Marya is left alone?
(a) She eats everything in the house.
(b) She brings a stranger home and has sex with him all weekend.
(c) She brings her boyfriend from California to see her.
(d) She brings a friend to stay with her.

10. What causes Marya to crash her father's car on the way home?
(a) She had not eaten in days and passed out.
(b) She was angry with him.
(c) She was drunk.
(d) A drunk driver crashed into her.

11. What is the smartest thing that someone can do for someone else recovering from an eating disorder?
(a) All are correct.
(b) Holding firm with them.
(c) Not allowing them to hide their actions.
(d) Not applauding their weight loss.

12. What does she worry about?
(a) Scaring her husband.
(b) Getting too thin.
(c) Hurting her family.
(d) Her body getting fatter.

13. What are some of Marya's rituals?
(a) Washing her hands constantly and straightening her space.
(b) Working too much and forgetting to eat.
(c) Only eating when she has performed certain tasks.
(d) Waiting until her parents have left to eat.

14. What does Mayra do at home while she is alone?
(a) Reads.
(b) Purges.
(c) Writes.
(d) Binges.

15. Now, why does Marya think her problems started again?
(a) She wanted them to happen again.
(b) Being in her parents' house causes her to regress.
(c) She was too tired to fight.
(d) Eating causes her to feel sad and guilty.

Short Answer Questions

1. When she is given anesthesia for the dental extraction, what happens?

2. While she was writing the book, what else changed in her body?

3. Where does Marya find herself in 1991?

4. To hide her purging, what does Marya do?

5. The first time her parents leave Marya alone, what happens?

(see the answer keys)

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