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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 anthologies does Sugar report reading?
(a) Cathedral and Other Stories.
(b) Interpreter of Maladies.
(c) The Things They Carried.
(d) The Lottery and Other Stories.

2. To what does Sugar compare her parents?
(a) Cutlery.
(b) Cups.
(c) Plates.
(d) Bowls.

3. How old does Happily Ever After report being?
(a) 25.
(b) 29.
(c) 21.
(d) 33.

4. In which liturgical season does Sugar join a prayer chain?
(a) Easter.
(b) Lent.
(c) Ordinary Time.
(d) Advent.

5. With whom did Sugar do a podcast?
(a) Fitzgerald.
(b) Elliott.
(c) Almond.
(d) Strayed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Sugar note not having previously understood?

2. How long does Working for Two report being with her wife?

3. What poem is referenced in “The Lusty Broad”?

4. What does Sugar cite as a factor contributing to infidelity?

5. What does Sugar describe Happily Ever After as?

Short Essay Questions

1. After her salutation, what is the first thing Sugar replies to Awful Jealous Person (258)?

2. What does Sugar identify as the worst role in her first-responder training?

3. What is the first piece of advice Sugar asserts she would give to her twenty-something self?

4. To what does the letter-writer in “Bend” ascribe her emotional affair?

5. What standard for maintaining relationships does Sugar recommend (306)?

6. What is the worst *physical* abuse C reports her brother perpetrating on her?

7. What story does Sugar tell her husband that provokes the comment “You don’t have to be broken for me” (221)?

8. What does Sugar note prompted her decision to become a parent?

9. What does Sugar note is most unsettling about the letter LTL writes?

10. How does the dress Sugar’s mother buys for her daughter serves as an example of becoming?

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