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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 artistic principle does Sugar describe to Man Juggler?

2. Whose relationship with Tom does Sugar discuss?

3. How does Sugar note children deserve to be loved?

4. How old does Sugar note being when her mother died?

5. At what age does Sugar report starting work?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Sugar insist will afford Wearing Thin more freedom?

3. What does Sugar note that the graduates she addresses do NOT have to do?

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

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

6. What advice does Sugar offer for merging households?

7. How does Sugar suggest Bewildered comfort his fiancée?

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

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

10. What revelation does Sugar’s encounter outside her job in London spur in her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part VI: We Are Solid is noted as being something of a postscript, a later addition to the original text. What shifts in tone and impact exist between the section and those preceding it? What in the text presents those shifts, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

To what extent does the respondent persona differ from the author? What in the text indicates as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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