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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What would Knapp do before she met a specific person for drinks after work when she was younger?
(a) Go for a run.
(b) Write a little bit.
(c) Get something to eat.
(d) Have a couple of drinks.

3. When would Knapp drink?
(a) When she felt angry.
(b) When she was lonely.
(c) When she felt anxious or bored.
(d) When she felt helpless.

4. How would Knapp spend her time during the first year of living alone?
(a) She would not have anything to do but drink.
(b) She saw constantly visiting with friends.
(c) She never had a free minute to herself.
(d) She spent a lot of time volunteering.

5. How does Knapp describe alcoholism?
(a) An evasive activity.
(b) A social activity.
(c) A destructive activity.
(d) A solitary activity.

6. Which friend of Knapp's had a schizophrenic brother?
(a) Meg.
(b) Michael.
(c) Abby.
(d) Alice K.

7. What was the prevailing view of women's bodies when Meg and Knapp were growing up?
(a) They were not told to embrace their bodies.
(b) They were reduced to sex symbols.
(c) They were not encouraged to think of themselves as attractive.
(d) They were encouraged to see themselves through other women's eyes.

8. What was Knapp's relationship with David like at the beginning?
(a) It was a long distance relationship.
(b) They lived in the same city and saw each other often.
(c) They knew each other for a long time before they got together.
(d) They moved in together immediately.

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

10. What are the two parts into which Knapp compartmentalizes her life?
(a) Seeing friends and drinking.
(b) Drinking and driving.
(c) Work and drinking.
(d) Drinking and family events.

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

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

13. What was Knapp like in her personal life?
(a) Out of control.
(b) Depressive and ineffective.
(c) Creative and thoughtful.
(d) Miserable and vengeful.

14. Liquor seemed to ease what emotions for Knapp?
(a) Affection and tenderness.
(b) Loneliness and emptiness.
(c) Rage.
(d) Anxiety and sadness.

15. Which friend of Knapp's had raging alcoholism in the family?
(a) Drew.
(b) Lawrence.
(c) Lauren.
(d) Abby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did sex give Meg?

2. When did Knapp sever ties with Roger?

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

4. What does Knapp's memoir describe?

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

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