"Go Ask Alice" Quiz

Answer: True

This entire book, from page one to the last entry, was supposedly comprised of diary entries. Although there is some doubt as to the truth behind it. For further details, go to the following link: http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/askalice.asp

Answer: We never learn

The main character's name is never revealed. The title "Go Ask Alice" is actually derived from the Jefferson Airplane song entitled "White Rabbit" which is based entirely on drugs, similar to the book itself.

Answer: September 20

We learn this because the girl provides entries on those days explaining that it is her birthday. Three birthdays pass through the duration of this book, and the middle one goes completely unnoticed by the girl herself.

Answer: July 10

Not only did she provide an entry on July 10, but she also writes in several other entries that July 10 was the date in which she first tried drugs, or when she first "got on".

Answer: 2

Coincidentally, both times she runs away, the entries of her diary are very mixed and confused, and none of them have dates provided; as stated earlier, the girl had no sense of time.

Answer: Being eaten by maggots and worms.

This fear is presented several times throughout the book, and more so after the girl's grandfather dies and she has to deal directly with his death. Then when she uses acid, her fears become her reality.

Answer: 2 years, 5 days

The first entry of the book is September 16, and the last is September 21, two years and 5 days later.

Answer: False

The subject of this story dies approximately 3 weeks after she turns age 17. Her last diary entry was the day after her birthday, and she died 3 weeks later.

Answer: 103 pounds

Although she does not record her weight often, the smallest that we know she got was 103 pounds, as she indicates in her September 21 entry, from the middle year.

Answer: Chris

Chris is the female friend that the girl runs away to San Francisco with, Beth was her first friend after she moved to the new house with her parents, Jackie was another drug friend, and Babbie was in the institution.

Answer: Rod

Roger was her very first infatuation, Richie was the drug dealer boyfriend she had for a short time, and Joel was the boy whom she later wishes to marry. Rod was not someone she ever liked. Rod was the boyfriend of Sheila, who both later rape the girl and Chris.

Answer: Mr. Mellani

Mr. Mellani was the girl's boss for a short time while she lived in San Francisco, and was very nice to her the entire time.

Answer: Jill

The friend's name was Jill, and she gave LSD to our subject girl without consent, in a game she called "Button, button, who's got the button?"

Answer: Jan

Jan is the very mean girl that continued to harass our subject girl when she was trying to come clean off of the drugs. It was this incident with the candy that led our subject into the mental institution.

Answer: Tim and Alex

We hear this several times throughout the book, that the girl has a younger brother named Tim and a younger sister named Alexandria, that she often calls Alex.