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

2. During her ninth grade year, Marya's bulimia and drug use combine to cause what?
(a) No feelings at all.
(b) Insomnia.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Anger.

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 taking laxatives.
(d) Patients eating too much.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marya begin to crave?

2. What happens at therapy with her parents?

3. How do Marya's parents see her?

4. What does Marya have to live with everyday?

5. Why does Marya become extremely angry with a doctor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Marya realize about the girl's folder?

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

3. What does Marya use besides bulimia to fill a void in her life?

4. What observations does Marya have concerning wealth and money?

5. As a child, how does Marya act when she is alone?

6. Why does Marya refer to this section of the book as "Take 1"?

7. When was the interlude to the book written?

8. Why is a school for the arts an easy place to hide an eating disorder?

9. What becomes a coincidence for Marya when she goes to Interlochen?

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

(see the answer keys)

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