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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 is the name of the representative from the Rape Crisis Center?

2. What does Alice ask the nurse when she comes in to check on her?

3. What happens when Alice tries to tell her mother about the details of the rape?

4. What did the tunnel where Alice was raped once function as?

5. What does Alice say her cries did to the assailant?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Alice's Dad question about the rape? How does this make Alice feel?

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

6. 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?

7. When Alice first sees her rapist, what does he say to her? How does Alice respond?

8. After the attack is finished, what does the rapist say to Alice? What does he offer her?

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

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about Alice's perception of fiction writers vs. poets, and Gallagher vs. Wolff. Why does Alice see herself a certain way? Who does she seem to identify with more? Why do you think this is?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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