Go Ask Alice challenge?
It isn't the challenge that surprises me -- it's the fact that anyone would ASSIGN it in the first place.
It's a crappy, crappy book! Not only that, it's one of those books that you're supposed to read, be shocked by and then pass it around to your friends unbeknownst to your parents. You aren't supposed to read it for school! GRRRR! Why don't people follow my rules???
Also, (need I remind you?) it ISN'T TRUE. Sheesh. Finding that out was like the James Frey debacle of my teenage years.