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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. 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.

2. What does Knapp do when Julian throws her out?
(a) Moves to New Orleans.
(b) Moves to Boston.
(c) Lives on the street for a little while.
(d) Gets an apartment close to his.

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

4. How does Knapp describe Janet?
(a) Seventeen years old and perpetually insecure.
(b) Forty-seven years old and homely.
(c) Twenty-two years old and overweight.
(d) Thirty-seven years old, tall and beautiful.

5. What does Knapp's father confess to her while he is dying?
(a) He had been an alcoholic for years.
(b) He was deeply in debt.
(c) He was continuing an affair he had promised to quit.
(d) He was homosexual.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Janet deal with the pain she felt?

2. What does Knapp expect of Julian when she meets him?

3. How did Knapp's alcoholism relate to her bulimia and anorexia?

4. What does Knapp talk with her therapist about?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Knapp took the quiz administered by the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence?

2. What is the story that Knapp tells about Tess?

3. What does Knapp say life is like for drinkers who quit?

4. Describe Julian and describe how he makes Knapp feel.

5. How does Knapp's mother's death affect Knapp's relationship with Michael?

6. How does Knapp say drinking skews a person's views?

7. What does Knapp say AA does for her?

8. Describe the conversation Knapp has with her therapist after Julian throws her out.

9. What happened when Knapp began to lose weight?

10. What happened the last time Julian attempted to kick Knapp out?

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