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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 was David's visit like over the summer of Knapp's second year out of school?

2. How did Janet act when she went to college?

3. How does Knapp describe Julian?

4. How does Knapp feel as she loses weight?

5. What do the test results in Chapter 8 indicate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Knapp's relationship with Julian like in the beginning?

2. What is the story that Knapp tells about Tess?

3. What happens when Knapp gets pregnant?

4. Describe the conversation Knapp has with her therapist after Julian throws her out.

5. What was it like for Knapp after she got out of rehab?

6. How does Knapp feel the first time she slept with Michael?

7. What is Knapp's friend Janet's experience with alcohol and eating like?

8. What happened the last time Julian attempted to kick Knapp out?

9. How does Knapp spend her time in rehab?

10. What was Knapp's relationship with William like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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?

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