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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the youth with whom Sugar had worked in advocacy with whom she reconnects?
2. How does Sugar define acceptance?
3. How old is Needs Direction’s erstwhile lover?
4. What is the cause of death of Sugar’s grandfather?
5. Who is the first writer whose letter is addressed in the book?
Short Essay Questions
1. What advice does Sugar offer for merging households?
2. What point does Sugar make to the letter-writer with whom she discusses the Beauty and the Beast story?
3. Why does Sugar relate the story about kittens on New Year’s?
4. What does Sugar insist will afford Wearing Thin more freedom?
5. What reasons does Sugar posit for Crowded’s sons to resist leaving home?
6. What does Sugar cite as “feminism’s one true failure” (182)?
7. What does Sugar note that the graduates she addresses do NOT have to do?
8. How does Sugar reframe the question of whether or not someone will ever love a given person?
9. What does the child protective services worker Sugar consults note is a benefit of working with teenagers?
10. Why does Sugar’s mother note being thankful for her ex-husband?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
More broadly, what effect upon the reader does the largely epistolary format of the book have? How is that effect produced?
Essay Topic 2
To what genre other than epistolary memoir might Tiny Beautiful Things be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Assuming that Tiny Beautiful Things should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?
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