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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Knapp describe Julian?
(a) Accepting, unmotivated.
(b) Intellectual, refined.
(c) Open, easy-going.
(d) Snobby, judgmental.

2. How does Knapp say alcohol is seen in some circles?
(a) As an illness.
(b) As a religious exhilaration.
(c) As a sacred weakness.
(d) As a rite.

3. What happened around the time Knapp moved into a new apartment?
(a) She declared bankruptcy.
(b) Her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.
(c) She was diagnosed with ovarian cysts.
(d) Her car was repossessed.

4. How does Knapp feel as she loses weight?
(a) She feels superior to heavier women.
(b) She feels safe from men's desire.
(c) She feels invisible to everyone.
(d) She feels more insecure than ever.

5. What does Knapp think of the people she meets at the AA meeting?
(a) She is embarrassed for them.
(b) She does not identify with 'those people.'
(c) She sees herself in each of them.
(d) She distinguishes between drinkers and drunks.

6. How did Janet act when she went to college?
(a) She could never cope unless she was drinking.
(b) She studied hard, but drank to keep the pressure off.
(c) She went crazy, over-eating and over-drinking.
(d) She was constantly insecure.

7. What does Knapp talk with her therapist about?
(a) Julian.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Her parents.
(d) Money.

8. Who is waiting for Knapp to check in at Beech Hill?
(a) No one.
(b) Her doctor.
(c) Michael.
(d) Her sister.

9. What does Knapp do when she goes to her first AA meeting?
(a) Tells all her stories.
(b) Yells at the drinkers.
(c) Watch the whole meeting.
(d) Walks out immediately.

10. What does Tess do the next day after her medical emergency?
(a) She starts AA.
(b) She keeps drinking.
(c) She does nothing.
(d) She goes to rehab.

11. What motivates Knapp to stay sober?
(a) Her promise to her sister.
(b) Her desire to know what it is to be alive.
(c) Her shame about her behavior.
(d) Her desire to keep Michael in her life.

12. What sensation does the chemical that the brain releases create?
(a) Calm.
(b) Exaltation.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Paranoia.

13. How does Tess handle her physical situation?
(a) She goes to the emergency room.
(b) She goes to her boyfriend's house.
(c) She drives off the road and is taken to the hospital.
(d) She gets alcohol and goes home.

14. What does Knapp's therapist recommend?
(a) Going home.
(b) AA.
(c) Converting to Christianity.
(d) Talking it out with Julian.

15. What was Janet's weight like during college?
(a) She would never let herself get above a certain weight.
(b) She kept a steady weight compulsively.
(c) It was never high enough.
(d) It would balloon, then crash down.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Knapp's friend Abby realize that she is an alcoholic?

2. What was David's visit like over the summer of Knapp's second year out of school?

3. What happened as Knapp ceases to eat?

4. What do Julian and Knapp do together as they get to know each other?

5. What do the test results in Chapter 8 indicate?

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