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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where would Knapp escape to when she needed to get out of her apartment?
(a) The pizza place across the street.
(b) Her parents' house.
(c) The beach
(d) A bar downtown.

2. Why was Knapp always anxious around her father?
(a) She was afraid that she was not pretty enough.
(b) She was afraid that he would beat her up.
(c) She was afraid that she was not smart enough.
(d) She was afraid that she was not brave enough.

3. When Knapp met her friend for drinks, how did Knapp feel after the drinks had kicked in?
(a) Like she was living in the moment.
(b) Like she was invisible.
(c) Like she was fulfilled.
(d) Like she was acceptable to the people around her.

4. What was Knapp like as a child?
(a) Outspoken and irreverent.
(b) Clumsy and disorganized.
(c) Curious and playful.
(d) Painfully shy.

5. Why would Knapp find it hard to have dinner with her boyfriend's parents?
(a) They were snobbish about drinking expensive scotch.
(b) They were poor and could not afford alcohol.
(c) They were not drinkers.
(d) They knew alcoholism where they saw it.

6. When would Knapp feel like she had had enough alcohol?
(a) When she started to stagger.
(b) When she couldn't stand.
(c) When she started to slur.
(d) Nothing was ever enough.

7. What did drinking make Knapp feel?
(a) It made her invisible.
(b) It fortified her against the things that hurt.
(c) It melted the hurt and distress.
(d) It made her angry enough to endure the pain.

8. What did alcohol do for Knapp's body image?
(a) It helped her feel invisible.
(b) It helped her let go and enjoy sex.
(c) It helped her feel loved.
(d) It helped her forget she had a body.

9. What class of people does Knapp find at AA meetings?
(a) Heads of law firms and CEOs.
(b) Poor and desperate people.
(c) Pilots and flight controllers.
(d) Mentally ill people.

10. Knapp was always careful not to be alone with which of her friends' fathers?
(a) Abby.
(b) Lauren.
(c) Sherry.
(d) Drew.

11. What was Knapp's relationship with alcohol like?
(a) On and off, and inconsistent.
(b) Long and tortured.
(c) Longstanding, methodically destructive.
(d) Brief and blissful.

12. How many bottles would Knapp keep at the end of her drinking?
(a) A case.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Two.

13. What occasion led Knapp to drink for the first time?
(a) A boy she liked lost interest in her.
(b) Her father lost his job.
(c) She was bored.
(d) She was molested by her brother.

14. When would Knapp drink?
(a) When she felt helpless.
(b) When she was lonely.
(c) When she felt angry.
(d) When she felt anxious or bored.

15. What would Knapp do when she was drinking?
(a) Look for someone to blame for the things she did while she was drunk.
(b) Drink until the voices stopped speaking in her ears.
(c) Listen to the buzz inside her head.
(d) Carefully measure how much was in her glass.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role did drinking play in Knapp's relationship with David?

2. Who would Knapp meet for drinks after work when she was younger?

3. What does Knapp wonder when she wakes up hung over, in bed with a strange man?

4. Where does Knapp write her column?

5. What would Meg feel the morning after a night of anonymous sex?

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