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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. Why is Anonymous upset about Roger at the beginning of Part 1?
2. What is the nature of the narrator's relationship with her grandparents?
3. After she starts taking sleeping pills, what type of recurring vision does the narrator have?
4. To what is the "game" at the party compared?
5. Why is Anonymous afraid to ask to her friends or her family about sex?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do you think Chris and Anonymous don't share the real reasons that they ran away to San Francisco?
2. What purpose do the descriptions of Tim and Alexandria's experiences at school serve?
3. How does the narrator feel about moving to a new place?
4. What do Chris and Anonymous's parents think is the reason they decided to return home, and how do they react when they see them?
5. What kind of people hang out at Chris and Anonymous's boutique, and why does this disturb them?
6. Why does the narrator's family have to move?
7. What happens to excite the narrator during her stay at her grandparents', and why is she so thrilled about it?
8. Contrast the two friends that the narrator makes at school, in terms of why she relates to each of them.
9. Explain what significant event happens at Sheila's party , and what effect this event has on Chris and Anonymous.
10. Why does the narrator begin to have trouble sleeping in Part 3?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Prepare a detailed analysis of attitudes and new developments regarding psychiatry in the 1970s, and, based on your research, describe whether you think that the narrator's experience in a psychiatric hospital was a typical one.
Essay Topic 2
A foil in literature refers to a character that is very different from the main character of a story; the purpose of a foil is to contrast with the main character so that the traits of the main character are more obvious. Choose a character in Go Ask Alice that serves a foil to the narrator, and explain how they do so.
Essay Topic 3
Describe the narrator's state of mind at the beginning of the story. What kinds of traits make her vulnerable to drug abuse? What purposes do they serve for her?
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