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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 size shoe did Sugar’s mother wear?
2. What does the introduction of Tiny Beautiful Things suggest Sugar offers her readers?
3. To whom does Sugar address comments about writing?
4. Whose relationship with Tom does Sugar discuss?
5. On what insurance does Sugar report having been as a child?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is noted as “the first and final act of love” in the book (7)?
2. Why does Sugar hold that Mourning and Raging’s husband offended more fully than her employee?
3. How does Sugar suggest Bewildered comfort his fiancée?
4. What does Wearing Thin cite as examples of things affected by her student loans?
5. What questions does Sugar note having asked herself when considering becoming a parent?
6. What does Sugar cite as a deciding factor in which letters get answers from her?
7. What reasons does Sugar posit for Crowded’s sons to resist leaving home?
8. Why does Sugar note the youth with whom she worked in advocacy esteemed her?
9. How does Sugar reframe the question of whether or not someone will ever love a given person?
10. Why does Sugar note that the graduates she addresses will be all right?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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?
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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