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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the anorexics think of the bulimics?

2. What does food do for many people?

3. What is her current weight?

4. Growing up, how does Mayra feel in her body?

5. How old was Mayra when she became anorexic?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What causes Marya to be obsessed by sex?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do anorexics justify what they are doing to their bodies? How did Marya justify her actions? Jane? Marya's mother?

Essay Topic 2

1) Collectively, do men have a positive or negative influence on Marya's life?

2) How does Marya use men negatively?

3) What male has had the most positive effect on Marya's life?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the novel, Marya searches for people who will love her, care for her, and understand her. How is her bulimia, anorexia, and sex addiction a call for her? Does she receive the help she needs too late?

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