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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 can the reader infer from the narrator's vocabulary and style of writing?
2. Why was it easy for Sheila and and boyfriend to take advantage of Chris and Anonymous at the party?
3. What valuable skill did Chris learn from Sheila?
4. What is one conflict that Anonymous has with her mother?
5. Who does the main character run into while shopping with her grandmother?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the narrator begin to have trouble sleeping in Part 3?
2. Describe the narrator's relationship with her mother at the beginning of the story.
3. Why does Anonymous begin to regret sleeping with Bill?
4. Why is the narrator upset about both her and Beth's summer arrangements?
5. What purpose do the descriptions of Tim and Alexandria's experiences at school serve?
6. Explain what significant event happens at Sheila's party , and what effect this event has on Chris and Anonymous.
7. What features of this section cause some critics to doubt that Go Ask Alice is actually the journal of a teenage girl?
8. Why does Anonymous decide to move to San Francisco with Chris?
9. Why doesn't the main character talk to her friends or her mother about her insecurities?
10. What does the narrator start to have visions of in Part 3, and why are these visions significant?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the point-of-view influence the story? How would the story be different if it were written as a third-person narrative?
Essay Topic 2
Most people have preconceptions about what drug users are like. What did you think drug users were like before you read Go Ask Alice? Has reading this story changed any of your assumptions?
Essay Topic 3
The narrator makes many friends over the course of her journey. Choose two of the characters with whom she forms a relationship, and compare and contrast their influence on her thoughts and actions.
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