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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 Knapp tell herself when she leaves the AA meeting?

2. How does Michael feel about Knapp?

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

4. What is William's relationship with alcohol?

5. How does drinking change for Knapp after her mother dies?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What happens when Knapp gets pregnant?

7. What was Knapp's relationship with Julian like in the beginning?

8. What happened when Knapp began to lose weight?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Knapp's relationship with drinking change over time throughout the course of the book? Be specific in citing examples.

Essay Topic 2

How does Knapp's work change over the course of her drinking? She compartmentalizes it at first, but how do drinking and quitting drinking become work as well? How does drinking change her sense of her writing work?

Essay Topic 3

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

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