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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alice think about while her attacker is raping her?
(a) Songs.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Ethel Merman.
(d) Poems.

2. What is the name of the psychiatrist that Alice sees only once?
(a) Dr. Bell.
(b) Dr. Graham.
(c) Dr. Miller.
(d) Dr. Novak.

3. What happens when Alice tries to tell her mother about the details of the rape?
(a) The doorbell rings.
(b) Her mother starts to have a flap.
(c) Her father walks in.
(d) Alice starts to cry uncontrollably.

4. What does Alice say are the two styles of neighborhood available?
(a) Safe and not safe.
(b) Hoighty and normal.
(c) Poor and rich.
(d) Ghetto and upscale.

5. What does Alice's family call her mother's attacks?
(a) Episodes.
(b) Flaps.
(c) Smacks.
(d) Freak outs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Alice fond of in her congregation?

2. What does Alice's teacher sing on the first day of class?

3. What doesn't Alice's father understand that hurts Alice to this day?

4. What is Alice holding in the pictures she took earlier in the night?

5. After Alice sees and identifies her rapist, who is in her dream that night?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Alice reads her poem in front of the class, what does Al Tripodi ask her? What does she tell him about what she could gain from catching her rapist in the hallway?

2. What does Alice's Dad question about the rape? How does this make Alice feel?

3. What does Mary Alice do before Alice leaves with her mother? Why does she do this?

4. When Alice is grabbed from behind, what does the man say to her? What is her response?

5. What does Alice do before her mother comes to pick her up? Why does she do this?

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

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

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

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

10. Who does Alice ask to help her shower? What makes Alice send her away?

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