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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 was Knapp's longing strongest?

2. What was Knapp's mantra?

3. What does Knapp wonder when she wakes up hung over, in bed with a strange man?

4. How did Knapp feel when she was living alone?

5. What was the prevailing view of women's bodies when Meg and Knapp were growing up?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Knapp's relationship with Roger.

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

3. What is Knapp's mantra?

4. How does alcohol affect Knapp's relationship with David?

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

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

7. Describe Knapp's relationship with her father.

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

9. What does Knapp find surprising about alcoholics?

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

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 represent her anorexia in relation to her alcoholism? Does she describe them in the same terms? Are they similar in her experience, or no? How does her drinking change when she stops being anorexic?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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