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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 does Knapp find when she tries to identify the influence that made her an alcoholic?

2. Why would Knapp find it hard to have dinner with her boyfriend's parents?

3. What occasion led Knapp to drink for the first time?

4. What was Knapp like in her professional life?

5. What would Knapp do when she escaped from her apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Knapp's relationship with Roger.

2. What is Knapp's mantra?

3. What confrontation do Knapp and her mother have after Knapp's father dies?

4. What was the emotional atmosphere of Knapp's childhood?

5. How were Knapp's personal and professional lives different?

6. What does Knapp do after David moves to Chicago?

7. What does Knapp love about drinking?

8. Describe the yearning that drove Knapp to drink.

9. Describe the event that got Knapp to quit drinking.

10. What is Knapp's friend Abby's drinking driven by?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does drinking affect Knapp's body and her sense of her body? Specifically, how does her relationship with her appearance and her weight reflect her drinking? How does her relationship with food and her body change when she quits drinking? How does that change take place?

Essay Topic 2

How do different characters act as alter egos for Knapp? Does her need for an alter ego change over the course of the book? Do her relationships rise above the alter ego relationship and become real relationships with people who are real in their own right, outside of her own need for an alter ego?

Essay Topic 3

How does the theme of Knapp's split personality--or compartmentalized personality--develop throughout the book? Use specific examples from the chapters. Is she one person? Is she more than one person? What do each of the people inside of her want? Does she seem pathologically self-divided, or does her self-division seem natural?

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