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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 is Sugar when her grandfather dies?

2. Which organization’s website does Sugar recommend?

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

4. Which of Sugar’s friends lost a husband in a car crash?

5. What does Sugar cite as a means of funding graduate study?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the book explain the origin of its respondent’s pseudonym?

2. What favorable qualities does Haunted by His Sexual Past’s boyfriend have?

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

4. What are the things Sugar asserts Gump does not know he does not know?

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

6. How does Sugar characterize worry stones?

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

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

9. What advice does Sugar offer for merging households?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter naming / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-naming scheme at work in Tiny Beautiful Things? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the epistolary memoir supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

Essay Topic 2

How reliable a narrator is the respondent of the epistolary memoir? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Strayed’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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