"Go Ask Alice" Trivia Quiz

Answer: False

The author's name is never mentioned. There is a girl named Alice who is mentioned in one paragraph. The title "Go Ask Alice" was taken from the Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit".

Answer: College professor

The girl's father was a well-respected college professor. At the beginning of the book, the family moved to a new town because her father got a job as the dean of political science at a new university.

Answer: LSD

During the first summer she recorded in her diary, the girl's best friend, Beth, went off to summer camp, so the narrator went to stay with her grandparents. There she met Jill, a girl from her old town. Jill invited the subject to a party where she consumed a bottle of Coke with LSD dissolved in it. In the following weeks, the girl experimented with other drugs.

Answer: San Francisco

When the girl returned home from her grandparents' house, she and an older girl named Chris started selling drugs with two college boys named Ted and Richie. When the girls had a falling out with the boys, Chris and the narrator decided to run away to San Francisco so Richie woouldn't turn them in for selling drugs to kids at the elementary and middle school.

Answer: Jewelry

Chris and the girl lived in San Francisco for about a month. They worked low-paying jobs and lived in a run-down apartment. They also met a woman named Shelia who introduced them to heroin. Finally the girls decided it was too hard living in San Francisco, so they went to Berkeley and started a jewelry boutique.

Their shop was open for only a few days before they packed up and went home.

Answer: She hitch-hiked.

The year after she went to California with Chris, the narrator began buying and selling drugs with the kids in her town. One night in March, she got high and hitch-hiked out to Denver. She only had $20 with her.

Answer: Help troubled children

Near the end of her first diary, she saw how miserable and hurt the drug-abusing teens around her were. She said one day she might want to try to help troubled teens like them, or she might study psychology to learn why some people choose to end up that way.

Answer: True

When the narrator came home, she was not using drugs herself. However a lot of the drug-using kids at her school started verbally taunting her, planting drugs in her purse and locker, and threatening her. She told her parents, who offered to tell the parents of the trouble-making kids, but she said that would cause even more problems.

Answer: Worms were crawling all over her body

One night in July, the girl was baby-sitting, and she unknowingly consumed LSD that was sprinkled on chocolate-covered peanuts. She thought she saw her dead grandfather, and he tried to save her. She was constantly seeing disturbing images of his body being covered with worms from being underground.

She thought, when his skeletal arms grabbed her, that he got worms on her. Then she severely scratched herself trying to claw the "worms" off. One of the effects of LSD is seeing and feeling things that aren't really there, particularly insects crawling on the skin.

Answer: 17

The girl's birthday was on September 20. The next to last day written about in her diary is September 20, her 17th birthday. She decided not to keep another diary after then. The epilogue said she died three weeks later of a drug overdose. It was not known if she intentionally overdosed, or if someone slipped her drugs again.