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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 attacker say to her after he wakes up?

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

3. What does Alice hold on to while the man drags her to the tunnel?

4. What does the nurse tell Alice she is waiting for?

5. What does Alice put on hoping to impress her mother when she comes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What show does Alice find uncomfortable watching with her family? Why is she uncomfortable about it?

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

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

4. What is the name of Father Breuninger's son? What happened to him while Alice was in college?

5. What did Alice's mother struggle with while Alice and her sister were growing up? What causes her condition?

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

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

8. When do people say a woman stops fighting? What does Alice say about this?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about the difference between Mary Alice and Linda. Write a compare/contrast essay between these two people and the comforts that Alice finds in them.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Think about Alice's hallmates during her first year in college. Why do the girls try to prove to the others that they are more experienced? What kind of power does an experienced girl hold over the others? Be sure to use at least two examples.

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