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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 Lane do to Anonymous?

2. What happens between Joel and Anonymous that briefly makes her happy?

3. Where is Joel's father?

4. What does Anonymous have repeated visions of in Part 6?

5. What is the name of the fellow drug user that Anonymous meets in Oregon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anonymous have repeated visions of in Part 6, and what do you think these visions signify?

2. Why does Anonymous decide not to start a new diary at the end of Part 8?

3. What purpose do you think Tom plays in the story?

4. Who is Babbie, and what is notable about her?

5. What does Anonymous give to her father for her birthday, and why do you think he is almost in tears when he receives that gift?

6. Do you think that whether or not Anonymous overdosed on purpose changes the message of the story?

7. How is the narrator influenced by peer pressure at the beginning of Part 5?

8. What happens to Anonymous while she is planning her mother's surprise birthday party, and why is this significant?

9. Why do you think that the narrator says that she's happy to be back on drugs at the beginning of Part 5?

10. How does Anonymous react to being in the psychiatric hospital at first?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

In Part 2 of Go Ask Alice, the narrator compares herself to Alice from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland series. Read a summary of Through the Looking Glass, then compare and contrast the narrator to Alice.

Essay Topic 3

The title Go Ask Alice was taken from a 1967 Jefferson Airplane song called "White Rabbit." Explain in detail how the lyrics of the song parallel the story. Be sure to give several specific examples from the text and the song.

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