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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 was David's visit like over the summer of Knapp's second year out of school?

2. How does Knapp's sister's wedding make Knapp feel about her relationship?

3. How does Julian treat Knapp after they move in together?

4. How often would Knapp call her sister to say she had had a fight with Julian?

5. How does drinking affect the brain?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Knapp say drinking skews a person's views?

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

3. How does Knapp feel the first time she slept with Michael?

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

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

6. How does Knapp describe alcohol's effect on the body?

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

8. What does Knapp say AA does for her?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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

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