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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 Knapp feel after she and Michael sleep together for the first time?

2. What is unique about the night Knapp went to the AA meeting?

3. What frightens Knapp at rehab?

4. What does William think about Knapp?

5. How does Tess' story begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Knapp say life is like for drinkers who quit?

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

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

4. What was Julian's effect on Knapp's identity?

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

6. What happened when Knapp began to lose weight?

7. What does Knapp do when she leaves the AA meeting?

8. Describe the conversation Knapp has with her therapist after Julian throws her out.

9. How does Knapp feel on the occasion of her sister's wedding?

10. How does Knapp see herself as similar to Tess?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do different characters act as alter egos for Knapp? Does her need for an alter ego change over the course of the book? Do her relationships rise above the alter ego relationship and become real relationships with people who are real in their own right, outside of her own need for an alter ego?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What comparisons does Knapp use to tell herself that she isn't that bad a drinker? Who does she compare herself to, and how does she see herself relative to other people?

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