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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 does Knapp do when Julian throws her out?

2. How long after Knapp moves out of Julian's apartment does she meet Michael?

3. How do the percentages look for someone who has become an alcoholic?

4. How does Knapp express her feelings to Julian?

5. How do Knapp and Julian celebrate their decision to move in together?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Knapp took the quiz administered by the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence?

2. How does Knapp see herself as similar to Tess?

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

4. What happened when Knapp began to lose weight?

5. How does Knapp's mother's death affect Knapp's relationship with Michael?

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

7. What does Knapp say AA does for her?

8. What happened when David came to visit Knapp after college?

9. What was Julian's effect on Knapp's identity?

10. What does Knapp remember of the last months of her father's life?

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

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 does Knapp use evidence in the book? What different kinds of evidence does she use? Does she use them differently?

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