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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 put on hoping to impress her mother when she comes?
2. What play is Steve Carbonaro obsessed with?
3. What does Alice do with the prescription?
4. What is the first line of Alice's workshop poem?
5. What does Alice say are the two styles of neighborhood available?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who among the church parishioners does Alice bond with? What did this person do for Alice when she was growing up?
2. What does Alice see in the elevator in Mary's college dorm? What happened to this girl?
3. 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?
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. What play is Steve Carbonaro obsessed with? What character does he compare Alice to?
6. What does the attacker take from Alice? What does Alice notice he overlooks as he robs her?
7. 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?
8. When do people say a woman stops fighting? What does Alice say about this?
9. What does Alice's Dad question about the rape? How does this make Alice feel?
10. What does Alice's father do for a living? How did this affect Alice as a child?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
When Alice sees her rapist and things get hectic, Ken "wimps out." Write an essay on how Alice's view of Ken changes throughout her ordeal, providing at least three examples.
Essay Topic 3
Read Alice's poem "If They Caught You," annotating and analyzing the poem. Then write an essay analyzing the stylistic elements of the poem, and how they contribute to the tone and meaning of the poem.
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