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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. How does Sugar define compassion?
(a) Finding solutions.
(b) Giving all the love you have.
(c) Eliminating problems.
(d) Setting yourself aside for others.

2. What caused Ian’s burns?
(a) Arson.
(b) A gas leak.
(c) A wildfire.
(d) A car accident.

3. How old is Sugar when her grandfather dies?
(a) 21.
(b) 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

4. To whom does Sugar address comments about writing?
(a) Lisa Cellist.
(b) Alice Violist.
(c) Elissa Bassist.
(d) Alyssa Violinist.

5. What language did Sugar study?
(a) Latin.
(b) Greek.
(c) Sanskrit.
(d) Hebrew.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Eudora Welty's works does Sugar quote?

2. Which degree did Sugar’s mother receive?

3. what author does Sugar recommend to the mother of a miscarried child?

4. At what age does Sugar report being sexually abused?

5. At what school does Cupcake teach?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Sugar remarks that disclosing trauma to intimate partners helps to further intimacy. What else does she note it does?

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

4. What does Sugar cite as a deciding factor in which letters get answers from her?

5. How does Sugar suggest Bewildered comfort his fiancée?

6. How does Sugar reframe the question of whether or not someone will ever love a given person?

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

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

9. Why does Sugar note that the graduates she addresses will be all right?

10. What is noted as “the first and final act of love” in the book (7)?

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