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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feelings motivate Knapp's drinking now that she starts seeing Michael?
(a) Guilt over seeing Michael and Julian.
(b) Anxiety that Michael will see the same things Julian saw.
(c) Longing for Michael's embraces.
(d) Happiness and freedom.

2. How does Knapp feel at rehab?
(a) Listless.
(b) Worthless.
(c) Elated.
(d) Depressed.

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

4. How does Knapp's friend Abby realize that she is an alcoholic?
(a) Her husband left her.
(b) She is raped.
(c) She crashed her car.
(d) She lost her job.

5. Who was William?
(a) Knapp's pastor.
(b) Knapp's father's friend.
(c) The facilitator at AA.
(d) A raging alcoholic.

6. What is the typical drinker's relationship with alcohol like after they quit drinking?
(a) They can never look at a bottle without getting sick.
(b) They can return to drinking any time.
(c) They are always extra susceptible to overdrinking.
(d) They can never drink comfortably again.

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

8. How are drinking and anorexia the same for Knapp?
(a) They both make her feel fulfilled.
(b) They both helped her express herself.
(c) They both show her her true worth.
(d) They both keep her from discovering her true feelings.

9. What does Knapp tell herself when she leaves the AA meeting?
(a) She'll never be one of those people.
(b) She'll quit drinking.
(c) She's too embarrassed to ever come back.
(d) She'll never go back.

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

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

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

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

14. How does drinking affect the brain?
(a) It stimulates the reward system.
(b) It creates the sensation of calm and well being.
(c) It suppresses fears.
(d) It creates pleasant hallucinations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What distance separated Knapp from Julian after he threw her out?

2. How often would Knapp call her sister to say she had had a fight with Julian?

3. How do Knapp and Julian celebrate their decision to move in together?

4. How does Knapp justify her drinking?

5. How did Knapp spend her last night before rehab?

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