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

2. What is the name of Alice's rapist?

3. What does Alice ask the nurse when she comes in to check on her?

4. What movie "scared the hell" out of Alice when she was young?

5. What does Alice see as she is walking to the shower?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Alice see in the elevator in Mary's college dorm? What happened to this girl?

2. 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?

3. What was the tunnel at the beginning of the book once used for? What does Alice see in the tunnel that still remains with her to this day?

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

5. Who was Alice with earlier in the night? What did they do together?

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 say to her mother about the men they pass while driving to pick Mary up from college? How does her mother respond to this?

8. What play is Steve Carbonaro obsessed with? What character does he compare Alice to?

9. As the attacker is raping Alice, what does Alice begin to think of? What does she start doing?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about Alice's perception of fiction writers vs. poets, and Gallagher vs. Wolff. Why does Alice see herself a certain way? Who does she seem to identify with more? Why do you think this is?

Essay Topic 2

While Alice's attacker is raping her, he says mean things to her and beats her. However, after the attack his behavior changes dramatically. Write an essay explaining this change in behavior towards Alice and what this might mean in terms of power and forgiveness.

Essay Topic 3

Read Alice's poem "If They Caught You," annotating and analyzing the poem. Then write an essay analyzing the stylistic elements of the poem, and how they contribute to the tone and meaning of the poem.

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