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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alice ask the nurse when she comes in to check on her?
(a) When she can call her mother.
(b) Whether she can shower.
(c) Why they are keeping her.
(d) Whether they found her attacker.

2. Who comes to Alice's dorm room to help her sketch her rapist?
(a) Mary Alice.
(b) Ken Childs.
(c) Casey Pierce.
(d) Diane.

3. What is the name of Alice's poetry workshop teacher?
(a) Tess Gallagher.
(b) Tobias Wolff.
(c) Al Tripodi.
(d) Mark Mothersbaugh.

4. What does Alice put on hoping to impress her mother when she comes?
(a) A kilt.
(b) A blouse her mother bought her.
(c) Khakis.
(d) A dress.

5. What does Alice's father specialize in?
(a) French Art.
(b) Spanish Literature.
(c) Tiling.
(d) Psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Alice and her family come from?

2. Who is Alice fond of in her congregation?

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

4. What is Alice's roommate's name during her freshman year at college?

5. Who is the memoir dedicated to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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