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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. Why would Knapp find it hard to have dinner with her boyfriend's parents?

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

3. What class of people does Knapp find at AA meetings?

4. What did Alex think of alcohol when he found it?

5. Who was Knapp's boyfriend at the time when her father died?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Knapp's relationship with Roger.

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

4. Describe the yearning that drove Knapp to drink.

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

6. What confrontation do Knapp and her mother have after Knapp's father dies?

7. Describe Knapp's relationship with alcohol.

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

9. What is Knapp's friend Abby's drinking driven by?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Knapp's memoir is a love story, but Knapp falls in love with a number of different men throughout the book. How does her relationship with alcohol parallel her relationships with men? Is she ever untrue to the bottle? Is she ever as desperate for a man as she is for the bottle? How do her relationships with men change as her relationship with alcohol changes?

Essay Topic 2

The book concludes with a moment of truth in which Knapp realizes that she can't keep drinking. What leads her to this realization? Was it a real revelation, or was it something that she was led to over time?

Essay Topic 3

How does Knapp represent her anorexia in relation to her alcoholism? Does she describe them in the same terms? Are they similar in her experience, or no? How does her drinking change when she stops being anorexic?

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