Set One: Besides finding yourself in the Book, find the answers to the following questions:

1. What is the sub-title of the book Alcoholics Anonymous?

2. What kind of book is Alcoholics Anonymous? What does this mean?
The last sentence on the second page of the Preface gives a helpful attitude to have when reading the Book - an attitude of
identification. How am I like these people?
Forward to First Edition (first published in 1939) tells me the Book was written by one person as the collective experience
of the first 100 who recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.
3. What is the main purpose of this book?
4. What does the word “precisely” mean?
Foreword to Second Edition (first published in 1955) is a history of what happened between the First and Second
Editions.
5. Why did Dr. Bob (“this physician”) repeatedly fail to resolve his alcoholic dilemma - even with spiritual means?
6. What happened when he did resolve it? At that time and until his death?
7. What two things did this prove?
8. What came first - the Book Alcoholics Anonymous or the Fellowship Alcoholics Anonymous?
Foreword to Third Edition (first published in 1976) is an update on the growth in numbers from the Second to the Third
Edition. The last paragraph also notes that nothing has changed in our approach from the beginning ‘til now.
The Doctor’s Opinion is the basis for the entire Book, written by, as far as we know, the first man who ever had a notion
that alcoholism is a two-fold disease. That concept is the working basis for Alcoholics Anonymous. Before Dr. Silkworth,
drunks were weak-willed, moral degenerates. He set forth that alcoholism is a dual disease - a physical allergy (page
xxvi, 2nd paragraph) and an obsession of the mind (page xxvi, 5th paragraph). Scientific research has since proven his
theory about the physical allergy to be fact.
9. What happened to the alcoholic of the type the Doctor had come to regard as hopeless?
10. Was this an isolated case?
11. … the _____ of the alcoholic is quite as abnormal as his _____.
12. What are the definitions of:
● abnormal
● allergy
● chronic
● phenomenon
● craving
● obsession

13. In the Doctor’s opinion, what happens to alcoholics when they drink?
14. What happens to you when you drink?
15. In the Doctor’s opinion, what happens to alcoholics when they don’t drink?
16. What happens to you when you don’t drink?
17. What is the doctor’s two part definition of alcoholism?
18. To alcoholics, their life seems the only _____ one.
19. What has to happen for there to be any hope for recovery? What do these words mean?
20. What does the Doctor say about the classification of alcoholics?
21. What one symptom do all alcoholics have in common?
22. What is the only relief from this symptom?
23. What is the general opinion about alcoholics among physicians?
24. What does the Doctor say is the solution in his two examples?
25. The Doctor’s opinion contains a simple one question test as to whether you’re alcoholic or not. Here’s the test - when
you have a drink (or fill in the blank) do you want another drink? Do you pass?
(END of set one questions.)