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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 did Knapp feel after the drinks had kicked in?

2. What did alcohol do for Knapp's body image?

3. Which friend of Knapp's had raging alcoholism in the family?

4. What was Knapp's relationship with alcohol like in the beginning of her alcoholism?

5. How did Knapp experience her own personality?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How would Knapp fill her days when she was living by herself?

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

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

5. How does Knapp strategize to hide her drinking at the end?

6. Describe the yearning that drove Knapp to drink.

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Knapp's relationship with sex related to her relationship with alcohol? How does her relationship with sex change over the course of the book?

Essay Topic 2

How does Knapp's refusal to get help change over the course of her drinking? Who tells her she needs help, and what finally convinces her that she does?

Essay Topic 3

The book concludes with a moment of truth in which Knapp realizes that she can't keep drinking. What leads her to this realization? Was it a real revelation, or was it something that she was led to over time?

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