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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 does the brain do in response to this chemical being released?

2. How does Knapp express her feelings to Julian?

3. What precipitated Knapp's last spiral of things getting worse?

4. What does Tess do the next day after her medical emergency?

5. How did Janet deal with the pain she felt?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do drinking and anorexia make Knapp feel?

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

4. How does Knapp spend her time in rehab?

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

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

7. What does Knapp say AA does for her?

8. What is Knapp's friend Janet's experience with alcohol and eating like?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Knapp use evidence in the book? What different kinds of evidence does she use? Does she use them differently?

Essay Topic 2

What are Knapp's true internal feelings? When do we see them? When they explode? In what behavior? When does she let real her feelings show?

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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