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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following authors did Sugar have posted on a chalkboard?
(a) Percy.
(b) Faulkner.
(c) McCullers.
(d) O'Connor.

2. Which of the following does Daughter with (Maybe) Expired Daddy Issues cite as belonging to “normality” (187)?
(a) No throwing, hurling, or bludgeoning.
(b) No screaming, fighting, or insults.
(c) No sarcasm, flippancy, or insincerity.
(d) No challenge, difficulty, or obstacle.

3. Which of Sugar’s friends lost a husband in a car crash?
(a) D.
(b) B.
(c) A.
(d) C.

4. For what kind of pie does Sugar ask?
(a) Apple.
(b) Pecan.
(c) Mincemeat.
(d) Banana cream.

5. To where does Sugar assert all roads lead?
(a) The mountaintop.
(b) The city gates.
(c) Rome.
(d) Trantor.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Trustee’s father have an affair?

2. What caused Ian’s burns?

3. Whose relationship with Tom does Sugar discuss?

4. From what city does Abbie write?

5. Which of the following philosophers does Sugar reference?

Short Essay Questions

1. What questions does Sugar note having asked herself when considering becoming a parent?

2. How does the text define “dry dating” (136)?

3. How does Sugar suggest Bewildered comfort his fiancée?

4. Why does Sugar answer the letters from Playing It Safe, Standing Still, and Claustrophobic together?

5. Why does Sugar suggest people in their twenties buy and read books of poetry?

6. What reasons does Sugar posit for Crowded’s sons to resist leaving home?

7. How does Sugar euthanize the baby bird she finds with a broken neck?

8. What does the book note is “literature’s greatest superpower” (xi)?

9. How is the choice of Strayed to write as Sugar explained?

10. What does Sugar offer as the best possible advice for an aspiring writer?

(see the answer keys)

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