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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. Growing up, how does Mayra feel in her body?
(a) She does not feel like one with herself.
(b) She thinks its wonderful.
(c) She feels good about herself until someone puts her down.
(d) She feels insecure.

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

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

4. Who does Marya often compare herself to in the book?
(a) The Hare from Alice in Wonderland.
(b) The Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland.
(c) The Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland.
(d) Alice from Alice in Wonderland.

5. What does Marya's visit to Methodist Hospital foreshadow?
(a) She will kill herself.
(b) Her life will end.
(c) She will be checked in again.
(d) She will never recover.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Marya's opinion, what does the American Dream prompt women to do?

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

3. Just as Marya uses Bulimia to fill an emotional void, she uses _____ in the same way.

4. What influenced Marya's eating habits?

5. At the age of 4, what does Marya claim to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Marya feel at the age of five and why?

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

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

4. What actions affect Marya while growing up?

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

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

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

8. What action gets the story moving quickly?

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

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

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