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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 are the two parts into which Knapp compartmentalizes her life?

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

3. When Knapp met her friend for drinks, how long would it take before the drinks kicked in?

4. What activity would appear on Knapp's list of things to do?

5. How did Knapp feel when she was living alone?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Knapp's mantra?

2. Describe Knapp's relationship with alcohol.

3. Describe the first time Knapp got drunk.

4. Describe Knapp's relationship with her father.

5. How would Knapp fill her days when she was living by herself?

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

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

8. What does Knapp find surprising about alcoholics?

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

10. What does Knapp love about drinking?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are Knapp's true internal feelings? When do we see them? When they explode? In what behavior? When does she let real her feelings show?

Essay Topic 2

How does Knapp's work change over the course of her drinking? She compartmentalizes it at first, but how do drinking and quitting drinking become work as well? How does drinking change her sense of her writing work?

Essay Topic 3

How does the theme of Knapp's split personality--or compartmentalized personality--develop throughout the book? Use specific examples from the chapters. Is she one person? Is she more than one person? What do each of the people inside of her want? Does she seem pathologically self-divided, or does her self-division seem natural?

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