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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. Which of the following anthologies does Sugar report reading?

2. Which country does Sugar note having wanted to hike?

3. Which country does Sugar note having wanted to bicycle across?

4. What cracker does Sugar note having eaten to excess?

5. To what does Awful Jealous Person compare jealousy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sugar refer to the couches she and her husband had early in their marriage as dueling couches?

2. What stressors does Spent report in her letter to Sugar?

3. What does Sugar note is most unsettling about the letter LTL writes?

4. What general advice for what NOT to do does Sugar give?

5. What weird thing does Sugar report happening to her?

6. For what reason does Helpless Mom report functioning as a single mother despite being married?

7. After her salutation, what is the first thing Sugar replies to Awful Jealous Person (258)?

8. What is the first piece of advice Sugar asserts she would give to her twenty-something self?

9. What does Sugar note prompted her decision to become a parent?

10. What does Drinker note as his drinking pattern?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Conversely, what effect upon the reader manifests when real names of participants in the book are revealed? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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