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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By saying this, what becomes all right?
(a) Marya's pride in the weight loss.
(b) Marya's feelings.
(c) Marya's longing.
(d) Marya's quest for love.

2. When Marya visits home, what makes her parents realize she is not getting better?
(a) She is caught in a lie.
(b) They hear her throwing up in the bathroom.
(c) The pipes burst from all of her purging.
(d) She is too thin.

3. As a child, Marya feels as though she is scared of____________.
(a) All clothes, especially shoes.
(b) All clothes, especially jeans.
(c) All clothes, especially socks.
(d) All clothes, especially shirts.

4. How does Mayra feel while at this place?
(a) Confused about her disorders.
(b) She wants to die.
(c) She wants to live.
(d) She likes the people she is meeting.

5. What has Marya realized about life over the years?
(a) Being beautiful will make things better.
(b) Being thinner, prettier, or different will not make life different.
(c) Being thin leads to happiness.
(d) She is unable to sustain life by herself.

6. Why is the act of feeling bones exciting for Marya?
(a) It means she is dying, which she wants.
(b) She can feel her anorexic body returning.
(c) She is able to control herself and her weight.
(d) She is on her way to recovery.

7. Whom does Marya meet at school?
(a) Other girls with disorders.
(b) Some new friends.
(c) The boy she will later marry.
(d) More boys to sleep with.

8. What does Marya realize will happen after she leaves the treatment center?
(a) No one will love her outisde the center.
(b) She will begin smoking to stay thin.
(c) She will be trapped with her parents.
(d) She will have to end her eating disorder.

9. The first time her parents leave Marya alone, what happens?
(a) She binges and eats all the food in the house.
(b) She begins cutting herself.
(c) She behaves herself.
(d) She locks herself in her room.

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

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

12. Currently, what gives her a reason to not give up?
(a) Her daughter's life.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her new husband.
(d) Her entire family's help.

13. By Christmas, what does she weigh?
(a) 50 pounds.
(b) 80 pounds.
(c) 40 pounds.
(d) 75 pounds.

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

15. Where does Marya find herself in 1991?
(a) At Methodist Hospital.
(b) In college.
(c) At home with her parents.
(d) At Lowe House.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lie does Mayra create to leave?

2. What keeps Marya eating?

3. What does aftermath mean?

4. What does Marya like about her body?

5. For Marya, what was the need for the eating disorder?

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