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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 does the officer share with Alice about his experience with rape?

2. What does Professor Wolff tell Alice after she tells him about her rapist?

3. What is the name of Alice's hometown?

4. What did the tunnel where Alice was raped once function as?

5. Who is the memoir dedicated to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the doctor inject Alice with in order to relax her? What might the medicine make her do? Why must she suppress this?

2. Who was Alice with earlier in the night? What did they do together?

3. What does Alice's father do for a living? How did this affect Alice as a child?

4. During her first year at Syracuse, who does Alice become friends with in her poetry class? What love triangle do they form?

5. What does the psychiatrist prescribe Alice with to help her calm down? What is Alice's reaction to this?

6. What hall does Alice live in when she returns to college for her second year? What kind of students are reported to live here?

7. Who among the church parishioners does Alice bond with? What did this person do for Alice when she was growing up?

8. After the attack is finished, what does the rapist say to Alice? What does he offer her?

9. What does the attacker take from Alice? What does Alice notice he overlooks as he robs her?

10. Whose room does Alice go to after she is attacked? What is the girl's reaction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about Linda's reaction to her rape, both to the case and to Alice. Write an essay about Lila's behavior after she was raped and the reasons for her actions. How do they differ from Alice? How are they similar?

Essay Topic 2

Many times in her life, Alice makes up stories in place of real events. Write an essay on the nature of Alice's lies and why she does this. Make sure to provide at least three examples. What does she realize she cannot hide? Why would she try to?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the book, there are many women that Alice looks up to. Write an essay on the significance of the female figures in Alice's life, and what they provided her with during her times of struggle and need.

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