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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. How does Anonymous react to the news from her piano teacher?

2. How does Joel react when Anonymous tells him about her history and her concerns about the drug crowd?

3. What happens to Anonymous's grandparents soon after she meets Joel?

4. How does Anonymous describe the psychiatric hospital?

5. What does Anonymous give Joel?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. How do Anonymous's parents react to her being arrested?

6. Why do you think that Anonymous is still troubled, even though she has Joel to comfort and support her?

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

8. Why do you think Anonymous doesn't want to tell her parents about her problems at school and with the "flashback?"

9. Why is Anonymous excited about leading her piano recital?

10. What does the narrator think about doing after her parents become stricter in Part 5, and why is this important?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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