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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 happened to Myra Narbonne while Alice was away at college?
(a) Myra was raped.
(b) Myra and her husband divorced.
(c) She and her husband were attacked.
(d) Myra was in a car accident.

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

3. What does Alice do with the prescription?
(a) Gives it to her roommate.
(b) Screams that its not enough.
(c) Throws it in the doctor's face.
(d) Throws it away.

4. What play is Steve Carbonaro obsessed with?
(a) Evita.
(b) Man of La Mancha.
(c) Little Shop of Horrors.
(d) Gone with the Wind.

5. What does Alice ask the nurse when she comes in to check on her?
(a) When she can call her mother.
(b) Whether she can shower.
(c) Whether they found her attacker.
(d) Why they are keeping her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the girl written inside the elevator of Mary's college dorm?

2. What is the ethnicity of the owner of the mom-and-pop store that Alice frequents at college?

3. What are the names of the two boys that Alice became good friends with at college during her freshman year?

4. What does Alice see while she is getting raped?

5. What does Alice's sister do when she gets home from college?

Short Essay Questions

1. What show does Alice find uncomfortable watching with her family? Why is she uncomfortable about it?

2. When Alice is having her poem work-shopped, who refuses to comment? How does Alice feel about this?

3. What does Alice's father do for a living? How did this affect Alice as a child?

4. When Alice and Ken go with the officer to look for her rapist, what is unusual about the officer's behavior? Why does he behave like this?

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

6. When Alice comes home after the rape, what does Alice say that shocks her father? Why does she do this?

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

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

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

10. When Alice first sees her rapist, what does he say to her? How does Alice respond?

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