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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 is written on the t-shirt that Alice made Mary Alice for her birthday?
(a) Mrs. Mick Jagger.
(b) Mrs. Bruce Springsteen.
(c) Mrs. Joey Hart.
(d) Mrs. Jimmy Page.

2. What does the officer share with Alice about his experience with rape?
(a) His mother was raped.
(b) His wife was raped when she was young?
(c) His neice was raped.
(d) His sister was raped.

3. Whose room does Alice stay in while she waits for her mother?
(a) Cindy's.
(b) Mary Alice's.
(c) Tree's.
(d) Diane's.

4. What is the first line of Alice's workshop poem?
(a) I picture you now.
(b) If they found you.
(c) Come to me.
(d) If they caught you.

5. Who is the memoir dedicated to?
(a) David Miller-Gold.
(b) Glen Miller.
(c) Glen David Gold.
(d) David Lee Gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Alice sees and identifies her rapist, who is in her dream that night?

2. What does Alice's father specialize in?

3. What is Alice prescribed in order to make her calm?

4. What does Alice do with the prescription?

5. Who comes to hold Alice's hand while she is being examined?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. What hall does Alice live in when she returns to college for her second year? What kind of students are reported to live here?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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