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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Giving Over, (pg 167-187).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Knapp's logic about drinking?
(a) It wasn't hurting anyone but herself.
(b) Nothing bad happened, so why stop?
(c) It was a good form of revenge against her family and the world.
(d) She was an alcoholic and couldn't help herself.

2. What does Knapp learn at AA?
(a) You can recover if you follow the steps.
(b) Denial is essential to alcoholism.
(c) Not every drinker is really an alcoholic.
(d) How to hide her drinking, even from herself.

3. What does Knapp find when she tries to identify the influence that made her an alcoholic?
(a) She blames a society in which alcohol was ubiquitous.
(b) She identifies the childhood trauma that disposes her to alcoholism.
(c) It is impossible to pinpoint one influence.
(d) She realizes that her parents disposed her to alcoholism with their genes.

4. Who was Knapp's boyfriend at the time when her father died?
(a) Edward.
(b) Julien.
(c) David.
(d) Michael.

5. What does Knapp expect of Julian when she meets him?
(a) He is going to understand her completely.
(b) He is going to make her a better person.
(c) He is going to force her to stop drinking.
(d) He is going to make drinking fun again.

Short Answer Questions

1. Knapp was always careful not to be alone with which of her friends' fathers?

2. How did Janet act when she went to college?

3. How did Janet deal with the pain she felt?

4. Where does Knapp write her column?

5. What was Knapp like as a child?

(see the answer key)

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