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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 see alcoholics?

2. What was Knapp's relationship with David like at the beginning?

3. What was Knapp's father's line of work?

4. How long was it after the accident before Knapp finally stopped drinking?

5. How old was Knapp when she fell in love with David?

Short Essay Questions

1. What would happen when Knapp would wake at night when she was drinking?

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

3. What was the emotional atmosphere of Knapp's childhood?

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

5. What is Knapp's mantra?

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

7. Describe the first time Knapp got drunk.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Knapp represent her anorexia in relation to her alcoholism? Does she describe them in the same terms? Are they similar in her experience, or no? How does her drinking change when she stops being anorexic?

Essay Topic 2

How does drinking affect Knapp's body and her sense of her body? Specifically, how does her relationship with her appearance and her weight reflect her drinking? How does her relationship with food and her body change when she quits drinking? How does that change take place?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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