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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 did Knapp sever ties with Roger?

2. What happened to Knapp's friend's brother who tried to molest his sister?

3. What are the two parts into which Knapp compartmentalizes her life?

4. Who was Knapp's boyfriend at the time when her father died?

5. Knapp's first drunk resulted from what drink?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Knapp think began her addictions?

3. Describe Knapp's relationship with Roger.

4. What does Knapp love about drinking?

5. Describe the yearning that drove Knapp to drink.

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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 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?

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