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1. How does the epigraph of the text support its claim that "Rape is unique" (ix)?

The epigraph of the text is an excerpt from a scholarly journal article. The article is called “False Allegations of Sexual Assault: An Analysis of Ten Years of Reported Cases." The article's four writers conclude in the epigraph of Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town" that "Rape is unique" (ix). The writers of the journal article explain that rape is unique in that "there is no other violent crime so fraught with controversy, so enmeshed in dispute and in the politics of gender and sexuality” (ix).

2. What are Krakauer's two goals for the text of Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town?

In the Author's Note, Krakauer explains that as his book Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town took shape, he hoped that it would shed light on the reasons why so few rape victims report their assaults to the police. He also sought to "comprehend the repercussions of sexual assault from the perspective of those who have been victimized" (xiv).

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