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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 significant event occurs at one of Sheila's parties?

2. Why does the main character relate to Gerta?

3. Why is Anonymous upset about Roger at the beginning of Part 1?

4. How could Tim and Alexandria's first experiences at their new school be described?

5. What is the nature of the narrator's relationship with her grandparents?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the narrator's relationship with her mother at the beginning of the story.

2. Why is the main character insecure in Part 1?

3. Why doesn't the main character talk to her friends or her mother about her insecurities?

4. What features of this section cause some critics to doubt that Go Ask Alice is actually the journal of a teenage girl?

5. Contrast the two friends that the narrator makes at school, in terms of why she relates to each of them.

6. How do Anonymous's behavior and dress start to change in Part 3 and what does this signify?

7. How does the narrator feel about moving to a new place?

8. 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?

9. Why does the main character want to lose her virginity to Roger?

10. Why is the narrator upset at the end of Part 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Some readers criticize Anonymous's parents for not doing enough to keep Anonymous away from drugs. What do you think her parents could have done differently? Do you think they could have completely prevented Anonymous from using drugs?

Essay Topic 2

Anonymous has visions of dead bodies rotting and being eaten by worms at several points during the story. Why does she fixate on that specific image? What do these visions symbolize?

Essay Topic 3

This story takes place during the early 1970's, when the counterculture played an important role in the lives of many young people. Research and describe the counterculture of the early 1970's, and explain why you think the narrator is drawn to it.

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