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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. Where would Knapp escape to when she needed to get out of her apartment?

2. What kinds of things would Knapp obsessively yearn for?

3. What does Knapp tell her boss when he asks about her injury?

4. What gesture does Knapp make after the confrontation with her mother?

5. How did Knapp almost hurt people?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What would happen when Knapp would wake at night when she was drinking?

3. How were Knapp's personal and professional lives different?

4. How does alcohol make Knapp feel while she is with her family?

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

6. Describe the first time Knapp got drunk.

7. What does Knapp find surprising about alcoholics?

8. How does Knapp's drinking change when she lives by herself?

9. What does Knapp realize during the last six months of her drinking?

10. Describe Knapp's relationship with Roger.

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

What is Knapp's relationship with her family like? Do they lead her to drinking? Do they lead her out of it? How does her relationship with her family change over time?

Essay Topic 3

Unlike many of the people whose stories she tells, Knapp doesn't make a real wreck of her life--she almost hurts her friend's kids, and that's enough to convince her to stop drinking. But what keeps her from making a true wreck of her life? Is there evidence of restraint throughout the book?

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