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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Marya's opinion, what does the American Dream prompt women to do?
(a) Create unrealistic expectations.
(b) Hate themselves.
(c) Lose weight to be successful.
(d) Deny weight problems.

2. What is her current weight?
(a) 150 pounds.
(b) 105 pounds.
(c) 135 pounds.
(d) 115 pounds.

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

4. What doctor will not help Marya at Methodist?
(a) Dr. J.
(b) Dr. Travis.
(c) Dr. James.
(d) Dr. T.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marya welcome about her stay at the hospital?

2. Where else does Marya go to for her disorders?

3. What does Marya have to live with everyday?

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

5. How old is Marya when she begins to enter puberty?

Short Essay Questions

1. What also leads Mayra do develop a strange relationship to food?

2. As a child, what does Marya want besides a perfect body?

3. How else does the treatment center cause Marya anxiety?

4. When was the interlude to the book written?

5. What is very different about life in the clinic and how it might make a person feel like they have no privacy?

6. What causes Marya to be obsessed by sex?

7. When a friend finally tells a school counselor about Marya's problem, how does Marya feel?

8. To add to her sex and eating addictions, what else happens to Marya?

9. When Marya is about to leave for her new school, what does she feel?

10. When Marya looks at her file, what does she see?

(see the answer keys)

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