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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 say her cries did to the assailant?

2. What does Alice's family call her mother's attacks?

3. Where does Alice and her family come from?

4. What is strange about Father Breuninger's visit to Alice's house after she is raped?

5. What is the name of the girl who does not comment on Alice's workshop poem?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Alice starts fighting her attacker, what does she say her cries do? What does her struggle do to the attacker?

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

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

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. 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?

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

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

8. Whose room does Alice go to after she is attacked? What is the girl's reaction?

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

10. Who among the church parishioners does Alice bond with? What did this person do for Alice when she was growing up?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the book, there are many women that Alice looks up to. Write an essay on the significance of the female figures in Alice's life, and what they provided her with during her times of struggle and need.

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

Consider Alice's reaction to Meggesto's questioning. Then write an essay from both sides of the argument, explaining why Meggesto would behave as he did to Alice and how Alice reacts to Meggesto.

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