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Old 11-03-2009, 08:57 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Big Book Quiz

1. Name the four horsemen

a) Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter and John Wayne
b) Bill W, Dr Bob, Dr William Silkworth and Dr EM Jellinek
c) terror, bewilderment, frustration, despair

2. What is the baffling feature of alcoholism?

a) it affects people of all ages and nationalities
b) this utter inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or wish
c) we don't have a cure for it

3. What is the 'number one' offender?

a) Resentment
b) Dishonesty
c) Fear

4. Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as what?

a) intensive work with other alcoholics
b) attending AA meetings
c) socializing with members of the AA fellowship

5. If we are planning to stop drinking there must be what?

a) no alcohol in our apartment or homes
b) no attendance at social events where alcohol is served
c) no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion, that someday we will be immune to alcohol

6. What is the distinction between the alcoholic and the non-alcoholic?

a) social drinkers never experience negative consequences from drinking
b) If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely or if when drinking you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic
c) non-alcoholics never become alcoholics

7. What are the essential of recovery?

a) recovery, unity and service
b) willingness, honesty and open-mindedness
c) abstinence, service and fellowship

8. What do we think is the root of our troubles?

a) Alcoholism of course!
b) Shame above all else
c) Selfishness - self-centredness

9. The actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of what?

a) moral or religious conviction
b) self-knowledge
c) self-will

10. Step 10 advises that we continue to watch for what?

a) selfishness, dishonesty, resentment and fear
b) our relapse triggers
c) a better sponsor or AA meeting

11. The alcoholic has a daily reprieve contingent upon what?

a) going to meetings
b) working with others
c) the maintenance of our spiritual condition

12. What is the central fact of our lives today?

a) we are not drinking
b) the absolute certainty that Our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous
c) that we are members of Alcoholics Anonymous

13. Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing what?

a) we are not drinking
b) their working of the 12 Steps
c) their experience, strength and hope




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