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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. How does Tess handle her physical situation?

2. What distance separated Knapp from Julian after he threw her out?

3. How does Knapp justify her drinking?

4. How does Knapp express her feelings to Julian?

5. What does Knapp expect of Julian when she meets him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do drinking and anorexia make Knapp feel?

2. What happens when Knapp gets pregnant?

3. What happened when Knapp took the quiz administered by the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence?

4. What is the story that Knapp tells about Tess?

5. What does Knapp think when she arrives at the AA meeting?

6. What does Knapp remember of the last months of her father's life?

7. What was it like for Knapp after she got out of rehab?

8. Describe Julian and describe how he makes Knapp feel.

9. What happened when Knapp began to lose weight?

10. What was Knapp's relationship with William like?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

How do Knapp's attempts to hide her drinking from herself and from others change over the course of the book? What strategies does she use, and how do her strategies change?

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