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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Knapp's mantra?
(a) This doesn't change anything.
(b) What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
(c) Liquor eases, soothes, protects.
(d) Everyone does it.

2. How does Alex describe himself?
(a) As a gregarious introvert.
(b) As a deliberate monster.
(c) As a nefarious extrovert.
(d) As a friendly psychopath.

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

4. What does Knapp find when she tries to identify the influence that made her an alcoholic?
(a) She realizes that her parents disposed her to alcoholism with their genes.
(b) She identifies the childhood trauma that disposes her to alcoholism.
(c) She blames a society in which alcohol was ubiquitous.
(d) It is impossible to pinpoint one influence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did drinking make Knapp feel?

2. Where would Knapp escape to when she needed to get out of her apartment?

3. Who was Knapp's boyfriend at the time when her father died?

4. How did the people around Knapp see her?

5. Knapp's first drunk resulted from what drink?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does alcohol make Knapp feel while she is with her family?

2. How does alcohol affect Knapp's relationships, emotions, and thoughts?

3. Describe the first time Knapp got drunk.

4. How would sex make Knapp's friend Meg feel?

5. What does Knapp do after David moves to Chicago?

6. How were Knapp's personal and professional lives different?

7. How would Knapp fill her days when she was living by herself?

8. What relationship does Knapp have with her readers when she writes for the Boston Phoenix?

9. What does Knapp love about drinking?

10. Describe the yearning that drove Knapp to drink.

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