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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 would Knapp meet this person for drinks when she was younger?
2. Who is Alice K?
3. What was Knapp's relationship with David like at the beginning?
4. How is Knapp's physical health?
5. What behavior of Knapp's started to worry her friends and family?
Short Essay Questions
1. What would happen when Knapp would wake at night when she was drinking?
2. What does Knapp find surprising about alcoholics?
3. How would sex make Knapp's friend Meg feel?
4. What does Knapp tell her boss when she hobbles into work after dropping her friend's children?
5. How does Knapp's friend Elaine inadvertently help Knapp keep drinking?
6. How does alcohol affect Knapp's relationships, emotions, and thoughts?
7. Describe Knapp's relationship with alcohol.
8. How does Knapp's drinking change when she lives by herself?
9. What does Knapp say runs through her mind when she wakes up next to a stranger?
10. How were Knapp's personal and professional lives different?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are Knapp's true internal feelings? When do we see them? When they explode? In what behavior? When does she let real her feelings show?
Essay Topic 2
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 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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