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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. When Knapp met her friend for drinks, how long would it take before the drinks kicked in?

2. What kind of alcohol did Knapp keep in the house at the end of her drinking?

3. How many bottles would Knapp keep at the end of her drinking?

4. What does Knapp tell her boss when he asks about her injury?

5. How does Knapp feel for her first year living alone?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does alcohol affect Knapp's relationship with David?

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

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

4. What does Knapp find surprising about alcoholics?

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

6. What does Knapp realize during the last six months of her drinking?

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

8. What does Knapp love about drinking?

9. What does Knapp say runs through her mind when she wakes up next to a stranger?

10. What confrontation do Knapp and her mother have after Knapp's father dies?

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 is Knapp's relationship with her family like? Do they lead her to drinking? Do they lead her out of it? How does her relationship with her family change over time?

Essay Topic 3

Unlike many of the people whose stories she tells, Knapp doesn't make a real wreck of her life--she almost hurts her friend's kids, and that's enough to convince her to stop drinking. But what keeps her from making a true wreck of her life? Is there evidence of restraint throughout the book?

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