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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gesture does Knapp make after the confrontation with her mother?
(a) She tries to make it a day without drinking.
(b) She checks in to rehab.
(c) She has a fit and goes on a binge.
(d) She pours out all the alcohol she has.

2. What would Meg feel the morning after a night of anonymous sex?
(a) Unanswerable sexual longing.
(b) Intoxicating rage.
(c) Regret and sorrow.
(d) Emptiness and disgust.

3. What did Knapp want from her drinking?
(a) She didn't know what she wanted.
(b) She wanted to know everything.
(c) She wanted to feel full inside.
(d) She wanted to be invisible.

4. What caused Knapp to finally give up drinking?
(a) She almost seriously injured two children.
(b) She was imprisoned and dried out there.
(c) She hit someone's car.
(d) She tried to kill herself a number of times.

5. When was Knapp's longing strongest?
(a) She does not always know what she wants.
(b) She longs for what drinking gives her all the time.
(c) When she wakes up every morning.
(d) When she gets out of work.

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

7. What behavior of Knapp's started to worry her friends and family?
(a) She would black out.
(b) She would call people while she was drunk.
(c) She would drive after drinking.
(d) She would go home with strange men.

8. What does Knapp realize about drinking after years of therapy?
(a) It turned her into her true self.
(b) It convinced her of many untrue things.
(c) It replaced her emotions with false emotion.
(d) It stopped her from experiencing things.

9. Who was Knapp's boyfriend at the time when her father died?
(a) Julien.
(b) Edward.
(c) Michael.
(d) David.

10. Where does Knapp write her column?
(a) The L. A. Times.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) The Village Voice.
(d) The Boston Phoenix.

11. How did Knapp almost hurt people?
(a) By hitting them with her car.
(b) By falling on them.
(c) By beating them.
(d) By cutting them.

12. Who would Knapp meet for drinks after work when she was younger?
(a) Sam.
(b) Her father.
(c) Michael.
(d) Julien.

13. What did Knapp learn from her father's drinking?
(a) When he drank, he got sloppy and irresponsible.
(b) After his first bottle of wine, he would become expansive and tell stories.
(c) After a couple of drinks, he would relax.
(d) After the first martini, he would get belligerent.

14. What did drinking make Knapp feel?
(a) It fortified her against the things that hurt.
(b) It melted the hurt and distress.
(c) It made her invisible.
(d) It made her angry enough to endure the pain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Knapp like in her professional life?

2. How did Knapp experience her own personality?

3. How old was Knapp when she had her first drink?

4. How old was Knapp when she first got drunk?

5. When Knapp met her friend for drinks, how did Knapp feel after the drinks had kicked in?

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