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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 would Knapp ask her co-workers?

2. Who is Alice K?

3. How often would Knapp drink?

4. What happened when Knapp was a sophomore in college?

5. Where did Knapp move after college?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the emotional atmosphere of Knapp's childhood?

2. What does Knapp do after David moves to Chicago?

3. Describe Knapp's relationship with Roger.

4. What does Knapp say runs through her mind when she wakes up next to a stranger?

5. What does Knapp realize after AA and years of therapy?

6. What relationship does Knapp have with her readers when she writes for the Boston Phoenix?

7. Describe the event that got Knapp to quit drinking.

8. Describe the yearning that drove Knapp to drink.

9. How does Knapp's friend Elaine inadvertently help Knapp keep drinking?

10. How does alcohol affect Knapp's relationships, emotions, and thoughts?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does drinking affect Knapp's body and her sense of her body? Specifically, how does her relationship with her appearance and her weight reflect her drinking? How does her relationship with food and her body change when she quits drinking? How does that change take place?

Essay Topic 2

How do Knapp's attempts to hide her drinking from herself and from others change over the course of the book? What strategies does she use, and how do her strategies change?

Essay Topic 3

What kind of book is Drinking: A Love Story? Write a review that characterizes the book's main themes, style, shortcomings and accomplishments.

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