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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. To Mayra, what does sex do for her?
(a) Makes her feel trapped.
(b) Is pleasurable for her.
(c) Allows her to control men.
(d) Helps her feel a connection to men.

2. What happens when Jane and Marya meet?
(a) Marya thinks that Jane is having a stroke.
(b) Marya becomes scared.
(c) Marya believes Jane is having a heart attack.
(d) Marya becomes happier.

3. What does Marya welcome about her stay at the hospital?
(a) Her new friends.
(b) Her new clothes.
(c) The food she gets to eat.
(d) The routine that she is given.

4. Marya believes that eating disorders are ____________.
(a) A way to be perfect.
(b) Addictions.
(c) Excuses.
(d) Nuisances.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As a girl, how did Marya react to the way she was treating her body?

2. What tone is the Interlude written in?

3. To keep up appearances of normalcy, what do Marya's parents do?

4. What do the anorexics think of the bulimics?

5. To Marya, what does life seem to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. As Marya turns eight, what happens to her body?

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

3. Why does Marya decide to switch from bulimia to anorexia?

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

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

6. What details and statistics does Marya give in this section of the book?

7. What does Marya explain about anorexics and how their minds work?

8. When was the interlude to the book written?

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

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

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