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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 teacher sing on the first day of class?

2. What doesn't Alice's father understand that hurts Alice to this day?

3. What is the name of the Sergeant who takes Alice's affidavit?

4. How much money does Alice have in her back pocket?

5. What kind of poems does Alice's teacher tell her she should write?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the attack is finished, what does the rapist say to Alice? What does he offer her?

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. When Alice reads her poem in front of the class, what does Al Tripodi ask her? What does she tell him about what she could gain from catching her rapist in the hallway?

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

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

9. On Alice's first day of Gallagher's class, what does Tess do? Why does she do this?

10. What does the attacker take from Alice? What does Alice notice he overlooks as he robs her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After Alice leaves college, she struggles to find herself and deal with her emotions. Write an essay about the way Alice tries to disconnect herself from her emotions and the result of these actions.

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

Alice ends her memoir with the statement "Both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand." Write an essay explaining this quote and Alice's ending and what conclusion she has come to.

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