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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 question do several of the jurors ask Alice at the grand jury hearing?
(a) Whether she was a virgin or not.
(b) Why she walked through the park at night.
(c) Where her parents were.
(d) Why she didn't run away.

2. What literary magazine does Alice work for during college?
(a) The Offbeat.
(b) The Review.
(c) The Damned.
(d) The Voice.

3. What item does Alice almost not recognize when asked to confirm its authenticity?
(a) Her own photo.
(b) Her moccasins.
(c) Her cardigan.
(d) Her underwear.

4. Where does Lila's father take the group for dinner?
(a) Red Lobster.
(b) Big Boy.
(c) Applebees.
(d) Red Robin.

5. What does Sgt. Lorenz apologize to Alice for?
(a) Being mean to her in May.
(b) Accusing her of doing drugs.
(c) Telling others that she was a liar.
(d) Not caring about her case enough.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Alice develop a crush on in her fiction class?

2. What day does Alice's rape trial begin?

3. What is different about Gail when Alice sees her before the trial?

4. While Alice waits for the grand jury, what does she do?

5. What class is Alice unable to speak in during her sophomore year?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Alice finishes college, where does she go? Why is she happy to do this?

2. What happens to Lila while Alice is at a poetry reading? What is her reaction to Alice after her rape?

3. What question is popular that the grand jury asks Alice? What does Alice try to play up to the grand jury?

4. What item does Alice have a hard time identifying during her trial? What makes her burst into tears shortly thereafter?

5. Who is asked to leave the room when Alice is at the lineup? Why is she asked to leave?

6. What outfit does Alice wear to her trial? What does Gail say is important about this?

7. What number suspect does Alice mark? Why does she choose this one over the other?

8. During her junior year of college, who does Alice date? What does she like about him?

9. What mistake did the police make so that Alice has to go through the grand jury? Why does she have to do this?

10. What is unusual about both Alice's doctor and her original attorney? Why won't they let Gail act as Alice's attorney?

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