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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 does Sugar note buying?

2. How old is Playing It Safe when she writes to Sugar?

3. How much does Sugar report having in outstanding student loan debt?

4. Which organization’s website does Sugar recommend?

5. Who is the first writer whose letter is addressed in the book?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Sugar relate the story about kittens on New Year’s?

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

8. What does Sugar report inheriting from her mother?

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

10. Why does Sugar note the youth with whom she worked in advocacy esteemed her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

Sugar repeatedly urges her letter-writers towards revealing their emotional selves to those in their lives. Overall, is it good advice? What suggests that it is or is not? How is the suggestion made?

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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