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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 college do Alice's parents discuss after she is raped?

2. Whose door does Alice knock on when she gets back to the dorms?

3. Where does Alice's sister go to college?

4. What does Alice's attacker say to her after he wakes up?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. What does the psychiatrist prescribe Alice with to help her calm down? What is Alice's reaction to this?

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lucky is a memoir about actual events. Write a persuasive essay on the nature of memoir and how much of this book can be accepted as pure fact.

Essay Topic 2

Think about the clothes Alice wears at important times in her life. Write an essay discussing the significance of the clothing Alice wears at critical points in the book, using at least three examples.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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