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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Knapp met her friend for drinks, how long would it take before the drinks kicked in?
(a) Fifteen minutes.
(b) Ten minutes.
(c) Five minutes.
(d) Thirty minutes.

2. How does Knapp feel for her first year living alone?
(a) Stable and organized.
(b) Depressed and fragile.
(c) Unstable and anxious.
(d) Psychotic and delirious.

3. What effect did alcohol have on Alex?
(a) It turned him into a sexy dancer.
(b) It turned him into an easy-going football fan.
(c) It turned him into someone people liked.
(d) It made his thoughts taste better inside his brain.

4. What did Alex think of alcohol when he found it?
(a) He thought it was the path to his true self.
(b) He thought it was the fountain of youth.
(c) He thought it would make him bulletproof.
(d) He thought it was divine.

5. When did Knapp sever ties with Roger?
(a) When David found out about the relationship.
(b) When another student caught them together.
(c) When David moved back.
(d) After David moved away.

6. Where did Knapp move after college?
(a) Providence, RI.
(b) Worcester, MA.
(c) Portland, ME.
(d) Provincetown, MA.

7. What injury did Knapp actually cause in her accident?
(a) She broke her spine.
(b) She hurt her knee.
(c) She sliced her hand.
(d) She wrecked her car.

8. What would Meg feel the morning after a night of anonymous sex?
(a) Unanswerable sexual longing.
(b) Intoxicating rage.
(c) Emptiness and disgust.
(d) Regret and sorrow.

9. What is the result of the gesture Knapp makes after the confrontation with her mother?
(a) She falls back in love with alcohol.
(b) She cuts back on her drinking.
(c) She succeeds in giving up drinking.
(d) She fails miserably at quitting.

10. What gesture does Knapp make after the confrontation with her mother?
(a) She checks in to rehab.
(b) She pours out all the alcohol she has.
(c) She has a fit and goes on a binge.
(d) She tries to make it a day without drinking.

11. What did Roger do for Knapp?
(a) Got her into school.
(b) Got her into rehab.
(c) Got her out of jail.
(d) Guided her through her major.

12. What would Knapp do if she felt that she did not have enough in her glass?
(a) Pour out her drink and ask for another.
(b) Sleep with the bartender.
(c) Obsess about how to get more alcohol.
(d) Get belligerent.

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

14. What was the prevailing view of women's bodies when Meg and Knapp were growing up?
(a) They were not told to embrace their bodies.
(b) They were reduced to sex symbols.
(c) They were not encouraged to think of themselves as attractive.
(d) They were encouraged to see themselves through other women's eyes.

15. What would Knapp compulsively ask herself when she was drinking?
(a) Are you driven by a feeling of hunger and need?
(b) Are you doing enough to control your consumption?
(c) How much are you drinking?
(d) Will this reflect badly on you tomorrow?

Short Answer Questions

1. What activity would appear on Knapp's list of things to do?

2. What did Knapp learn from her father's drinking?

3. How did Knapp experience her own personality?

4. What was Knapp's father's line of work?

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

(see the answer keys)

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