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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. Why can't the narrator sleep during Part 3?

2. To what drug is the narrator introduced on her date?

3. Why does the narrator reject Roger?

4. Why does the narrator worry about the new owners of her house?

5. After her experience at the party, what does the narrator decide to ask Jill?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the narrator's first experiences at school in Part 2.

2. Why is the narrator upset at the end of Part 1?

3. Why does Anonymous decide to move to San Francisco with Chris?

4. Contrast the two friends that the narrator makes at school, in terms of why she relates to each of them.

5. Why do Chris and the narrator decide to return home?

6. How do Anonymous's behavior and dress start to change in Part 3 and what does this signify?

7. Why do you think Chris and Anonymous don't share the real reasons that they ran away to San Francisco?

8. What Christmas carol lyric does Anonymous relate to at the end of Part 4, and why is this important?

9. What features of this section cause some critics to doubt that Go Ask Alice is actually the journal of a teenage girl?

10. Why does the main character want to lose her virginity to Roger?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A foil in literature refers to a character that is very different from the main character of a story; the purpose of a foil is to contrast with the main character so that the traits of the main character are more obvious. Choose a character in Go Ask Alice that serves a foil to the narrator, and explain how they do so.

Essay Topic 2

This book is supposedly the real diary of a teenage girl struggling with drug use. However, several critics claim that this cannot be true because the narrative seems too shaped, and the narrator seems too sophisticated. Do you agree or disagree with those critics? Explain in detail at least 3 reasons why or why not, giving examples from the text. If the story is fabricated, in whole or in part, describe whether you think that this lessens the impact of the story.

Essay Topic 3

Prepare a detailed analysis of attitudes and new developments regarding psychiatry in the 1970s, and, based on your research, describe whether you think that the narrator's experience in a psychiatric hospital was a typical one.

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