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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 does Alice's family call her mother's attacks?
2. What is the first line of Alice's workshop poem?
3. What play is Steve Carbonaro obsessed with?
4. Why is Alice jealous that her sister receives a visit from a boy.
5. What is Mary Alice's roommate's name during her freshman year at college?
Short Essay Questions
1. When do people say a woman stops fighting? What does Alice say about this?
2. When Alice first sees her rapist, what does he say to her? How does Alice respond?
3. When Alice is having her poem work-shopped, who refuses to comment? How does Alice feel about this?
4. What play is Steve Carbonaro obsessed with? What character does he compare Alice to?
5. What does Tobias Wolff tell Alice before he lets her leave class? Why does he say this?
6. Who does Alice ask to help her shower? What makes Alice send her away?
7. What does the psychiatrist prescribe Alice with to help her calm down? What is Alice's reaction to this?
8. What does Alice's Dad question about the rape? How does this make Alice feel?
9. As the attacker is raping Alice, what does Alice begin to think of? What does she start doing?
10. When Alice starts fighting her attacker, what does she say her cries do? What does her struggle do to the attacker?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When Alice sees her rapist and things get hectic, Ken "wimps out." Write an essay on how Alice's view of Ken changes throughout her ordeal, providing at least three examples.
Essay Topic 2
Think about Linda's reaction to her rape, both to the case and to Alice. Write an essay about Lila's behavior after she was raped and the reasons for her actions. How do they differ from Alice? How are they similar?
Essay Topic 3
Think about the role of the police in Alice's case. Write an essay on the police presence in the book, spanning from the impersonal to personal, giving at least three examples.
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