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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Julian ask Knapp to change?
(a) Her appearance.
(b) Her drinking.
(c) Her profession.
(d) Her income.

3. How does Knapp react to the AA meeting?
(a) She warily makes a few friends.
(b) She breaks down and sobs.
(c) She brings an illicit flask.
(d) She rejects AA.

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

5. What was David's visit like over the summer of Knapp's second year out of school?
(a) He went to Europe instead of spending the time with her.
(b) He took her to Europe for half the summer.
(c) He broke up with her at the end.
(d) They fought all the time.

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

7. How does Knapp's sister's wedding make Knapp feel about her relationship?
(a) She feels her relationship is failing.
(b) She knows that the relationship is wrong for her.
(c) She sees what she will need to do to get married.
(d) She is confident that she is on the way to being married too.

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

9. What physical symptoms does Tess experience on her way home?
(a) Heaving bleeding.
(b) Temporary blindness.
(c) She has terrible pains in her belly.
(d) She cannot breathe.

10. What do the test results in Chapter 8 indicate?
(a) That Knapp is in bad health.
(b) That Knapp is not cut out for graduate school.
(c) That Knapp is in the final stage of alcoholism.
(d) That Knapp is not damaging herself with her drinking.

11. What precipitated Knapp's last spiral of things getting worse?
(a) She wrecked her car.
(b) She lost her job.
(c) Michael and Julian found out about each other.
(d) Her father died.

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

13. How does Knapp feel after she and Michael sleep together for the first time?
(a) She obsesses over whether she should be home waiting for Julian's call.
(b) She worries about whether she is being good enough for Michael.
(c) She can't stop thinking about how they made love.
(d) She is deliriously happy.

14. What does Knapp do in addition to ceasing to eat?
(a) She calls everyone she knows and yells at them.
(b) She studies harder than ever.
(c) She works out compulsively.
(d) She begins to use cocaine.

15. How did Janet deal with the pain she felt?
(a) She studied.
(b) She cut herself.
(c) She drank till she blacked out.
(d) She made herself throw up.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does drinking change for Knapp after her mother dies?

2. What was Knapp's logic about drinking?

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

4. How much does Michael drink?

5. What happens when Tess wakes up in the morning, as Knapp tells the story?

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