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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. How old does Wearing Thin report being?

2. How old is Ian when his life ends?

3. Which degree did Sugar’s mother receive?

4. In what year of high school is Worried Friend when she writes to Sugar?

5. How does Sugar define acceptance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice does Sugar offer for merging households?

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

3. What does the child protective services worker Sugar consults note is a benefit of working with teenagers?

4. Why does Sugar’s mother note being thankful for her ex-husband?

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

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

7. Aside from wearing a particular mask, what advice does Sugar report avoiding giving?

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

9. Why does Sugar hold that Mourning and Raging’s husband offended more fully than her employee?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the epistolary memoir, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 3

Both the letter-writers whose concerns are addressed in the book and the respondent most commonly operate under pseudonyms (that is, false names). What functions does the pseudonymization serve? What in the book indicates as much, and how does it do so?

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