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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. What would Knapp ask her co-workers?

2. How did Knapp's drinking change in the last six months of her drinking?

3. How does Knapp describe alcoholism?

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

5. What had Knapp done at night until she was sixteen, when she started drinking?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the yearning that drove Knapp to drink.

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

9. What is Knapp's mantra?

10. What does Knapp find surprising about alcoholics?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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