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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Knapp's mantra?
(a) Liquor eases, soothes, protects.
(b) This doesn't change anything.
(c) What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
(d) Everyone does it.

2. How did Knapp feel when she was living alone?
(a) Quietly satisfied and organized.
(b) Out of control and angry.
(c) Intimidated and depressed.
(d) Gleeful and independent.

3. When Knapp met her friend for drinks, how long would it take before the drinks kicked in?
(a) Thirty minutes.
(b) Five minutes.
(c) Fifteen minutes.
(d) Ten minutes.

4. What happened when Knapp was a sophomore in college?
(a) She slept with two friends in the same night.
(b) She fell asleep in the snow and got hypothermia.
(c) She started to be anorexic.
(d) She slept with a friend after her birthday party.

5. What happened to Knapp's friend's brother who tried to molest his sister?
(a) He was killed by an angry father.
(b) Nothing--he went on to molest other girls.
(c) He was institutionalized.
(d) He killed himself.

6. How would Knapp make it through an evening with her boyfriend?
(a) She would hide a flask in the sofa.
(b) She would go to the car to drink scotch.
(c) She would wait until her boyfriend went to sleep to drink.
(d) She would not drink.

7. What does Knapp tell her boss when he asks about her injury?
(a) She tells him that she was hit by a car.
(b) She tells him that she was chasing some kids.
(c) She says she hurt herself playing volleyball.
(d) She says she fell down the stairs.

8. How does Knapp respond when her mother confronts her with the empty bottle?
(a) She confesses.
(b) She accuses her mother of hypocrisy.
(c) She lies.
(d) She enters rehab.

9. Where did Knapp's mother find Knapp's empty bottle after Knapp's father died?
(a) In the trash.
(b) Behind the toilet.
(c) In the cabinet.
(d) In the garden.

10. What would Knapp compulsively ask herself when she was drinking?
(a) Will this reflect badly on you tomorrow?
(b) Are you driven by a feeling of hunger and need?
(c) Are you doing enough to control your consumption?
(d) How much are you drinking?

11. What would Knapp do when she was drinking?
(a) Carefully measure how much was in her glass.
(b) Look for someone to blame for the things she did while she was drunk.
(c) Listen to the buzz inside her head.
(d) Drink until the voices stopped speaking in her ears.

12. What was Knapp like in her professional life?
(a) Highly-motivated and tightly controlled.
(b) Lazy and shiftless.
(c) Smart and productive.
(d) Inconsistent but occasionally brilliant.

13. What injury did Knapp actually cause in her accident?
(a) She hurt her knee.
(b) She wrecked her car.
(c) She broke her spine.
(d) She sliced her hand.

14. What did Roger do for Knapp?
(a) Guided her through her major.
(b) Got her out of jail.
(c) Got her into school.
(d) Got her into rehab.

15. What do Knapp's readers appreciate about her column?
(a) Her wry humor.
(b) Her honesty.
(c) Her wisdom.
(d) Her wit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Knapp like in her personal life?

2. What does Knapp find when she tries to identify the influence that made her an alcoholic?

3. What behavior of Knapp's started to worry her friends and family?

4. Knapp's first drunk resulted from what drink?

5. What are the two parts into which Knapp compartmentalizes her life?

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