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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Knapp write her column?

2. How old was Knapp when she had her first drink?

3. Who is Alice K?

4. When would Knapp drink?

5. What did drinking make Knapp feel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Knapp's drinking change when she lives by herself?

2. What does Knapp love about drinking?

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

4. How would Knapp feel whenever her glass was filled?

5. What does Knapp realize after AA and years of therapy?

6. Describe the yearning that drove Knapp to drink.

7. What is Knapp's friend Abby's drinking driven by?

8. What does Knapp tell her boss when she hobbles into work after dropping her friend's children?

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

10. How does Knapp's friend Elaine inadvertently help Knapp keep drinking?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does narrative play in Drinking: A Love Story? What is the overarching narrative, and how do the anecdotes and episodes along the way bolster or supplement her narrative? Is there tension between the main narrative and the secondary narratives? Do any of the secondary narratives threaten to run away with the story? How does Knapp reel them in?

Essay Topic 2

How does Knapp's relationship with her work change as her drinking changes? What does her writing have to do with her drinking? Does drinking threaten her writing? Does writing threaten her drinking?

Essay Topic 3

How does Knapp's work change over the course of her drinking? She compartmentalizes it at first, but how do drinking and quitting drinking become work as well? How does drinking change her sense of her writing work?

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