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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 write her column?

2. What would Meg feel the morning after a night of anonymous sex?

3. Who is Alice K?

4. How did the people around Knapp see her?

5. How does Knapp describe alcoholism?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Knapp find surprising about alcoholics?

4. What does Knapp realize after AA and years of therapy?

5. What does Knapp love about drinking?

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

7. Describe the yearning that drove Knapp to drink.

8. Describe the event that got Knapp to quit drinking.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Knapp's memoir is a love story, but Knapp falls in love with a number of different men throughout the book. How does her relationship with alcohol parallel her relationships with men? Is she ever untrue to the bottle? Is she ever as desperate for a man as she is for the bottle? How do her relationships with men change as her relationship with alcohol changes?

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