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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does David interpret Nic's glance over his shoulder as the two drive up to St. Helena Hospital?
(a) He believes that Nic is worried about imagined assassins.
(b) He believes that Nic is thinking about
(c) He believes that Nic is about to make a run for it.
(d) He believes that Nic is thinking about Vicki.

2. What is Nic's favorite record store?
(a) Everyday Music.
(b) Tower Records.
(c) Amoeba Music.
(d) Musician's Friend.

3. What piece of information does David struggle to remember after he suffers a medical emergency?
(a) His own address.
(b) The month.
(c) Nic's birthday.
(d) Nic's phone number.

4. What is NOT a task Nic calls his father David to report taking during his longest period of sobriety within the narrative?
(a) He has secured a credit card.
(b) He has opened a bank account.
(c) He has saved some money.
(d) He has purchased a house.

5. For what reason is Nic reluctant to return to the Bay Area after his branch of the Hazelden closes?
(a) He associates the area with drugs.
(b) He knows that the area is too expensive for him.
(c) He believes that to make a success of his band, he must not live in the Bay Area.
(d) He associates the area with his recovering addict girlfriend, Z.

Short Answer Questions

1. During one desperate email to his mother Vicki, Nic states that AA makes him feel what emotion?

2. Whom does David call when he wants someone to check on Nic after he stops returning phone calls?

3. What type of facility is St. Helena Hospital?

4. What is NOT a piece of evidence that tells the author and his wife that Nic has broken into the family home?

5. Nic admits to his father that the drug scenes from what movie make him want to get high?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does David describe as his usual routine when Nic goes missing?

2. For what reason does Sheff warn the parents of addicted children to avoid certain music?

3. What do the majority of experts recommend with regard to the length of a rehab stay and the need for after-care?

4. What distinction does Sheff make between blame and accountability?

5. What observation does Nic make about the Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco?

6. Whom does Sheff list as people and organizations he at times blames for Nic's problems, before returning to the idea that Nic has a disease that causes his bad behavior?

7. What are the definitions of priming and cuing, behaviors that can lead to relapse?

8. How much more likely are addicts to have underlying mental health issues, in relation to the general population?

9. For what purpose does Sheff use the allusion to the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?

10. What distinction does Sheff make between useful guilt and guilt that is not useful?

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