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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. Who did Knapp almost hurt, making her want to stop drinking?

2. What role did drinking play in Knapp's relationship with David?

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

4. How did her friendship with Elaine make Knapp feel about herself?

5. How would Knapp spend her time during the first year of living alone?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Knapp's relationship with her father.

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

3. What does Knapp find surprising about alcoholics?

4. What would Knapp do when she met her friend Sam for drinks?

5. How does Knapp get through dinner with Michael's parents?

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

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

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

9. Describe the yearning that drove Knapp to drink.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the theme of Knapp's split personality--or compartmentalized personality--develop throughout the book? Use specific examples from the chapters. Is she one person? Is she more than one person? What do each of the people inside of her want? Does she seem pathologically self-divided, or does her self-division seem natural?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What kind of book is Drinking: A Love Story? Write a review that characterizes the book's main themes, style, shortcomings and accomplishments.

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