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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 long after the move does Knapp see her therapist?

2. How does Knapp think Julian saw her?

3. What is difficult for Knapp about being out of rehab?

4. How do Knapp and Julian celebrate their decision to move in together?

5. How does Knapp behave the last time Julian threw her out?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Knapp spend her time in rehab?

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

3. How do drinking and anorexia make Knapp feel?

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

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

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

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

8. What happened when David came to visit Knapp after college?

9. How does Knapp's mother's death affect Knapp's relationship with Michael?

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 distract herself from her drinking? Specifically, how does her storytelling help her deny her drinking?

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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