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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 the assailant say to Alice when he first grabs her?

2. Where does Alice and her family come from?

3. What play is Steve Carbonaro obsessed with?

4. What does the doctor inject Alice with in order to relax her?

5. What makes Alice think about the girl that was murdered in the tunnel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who among the church parishioners does Alice bond with? What did this person do for Alice when she was growing up?

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

4. When do people say a woman stops fighting? What does Alice say about this?

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

6. 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?

7. What did Alice's mother struggle with while Alice and her sister were growing up? What causes her condition?

8. What does the doctor inject Alice with in order to relax her? What might the medicine make her do? Why must she suppress this?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about the difference between Mary Alice and Linda. Write a compare/contrast essay between these two people and the comforts that Alice finds in them.

Essay Topic 2

Think about Linda's reaction to her rape, both to the case and to Alice. Write an essay about Lila's behavior after she was raped and the reasons for her actions. How do they differ from Alice? How are they similar?

Essay Topic 3

Alice frets about the impression both her testimony and actions will make on her case. Write an essay about the importance of Alice's appearance while in the courtroom. Make sure you use at least three examples.

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