Drinking: A Love Story Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Caroline Knapp
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 125 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Drinking: A Love Story Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Caroline Knapp
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 125 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. How does Knapp respond when her mother confronts her with the empty bottle?

2. How did Knapp's drinking change in the last six months of her drinking?

3. What did drinking make Knapp feel?

4. Knapp's first drunk resulted from what drink?

5. What is the result of the gesture Knapp makes after the confrontation with her mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Knapp love about drinking?

2. What does Knapp realize after AA and years of therapy?

3. Describe the first time Knapp got drunk.

4. What does Knapp find surprising about alcoholics?

5. How does Knapp's drinking change when she lives by herself?

6. How would sex make Knapp's friend Meg feel?

7. Describe the yearning that drove Knapp to drink.

8. What is Knapp's mantra?

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

10. How would Knapp fill her days when she was living by herself?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are Knapp's true internal feelings? When do we see them? When they explode? In what behavior? When does she let real her feelings show?

Essay Topic 2

How is Knapp's relationship with sex related to her relationship with alcohol? How does her relationship with sex change over the course of the book?

Essay Topic 3

What comparisons does Knapp use to tell herself that she isn't that bad a drinker? Who does she compare herself to, and how does she see herself relative to other people?

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