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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 poem is referenced in “The Lusty Broad”?

2. What does Sugar cite as a factor contributing to infidelity?

3. For what word does Sugar provide an etymology?

4. What poet is referenced in "The Lusty Broad"?

5. Where does the letter-writer of “Transcend” live?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sugar report trying to quell the nagging voice inside her head?

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

3. How does Sugar note a person can find forgiveness?

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

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

6. How does Sugar explain what it means to transcend?

7. What story does Sugar tell her husband that provokes the comment “You don’t have to be broken for me” (221)?

8. How does Sugar describe jeans in the wake of a breakup?

9. Why does Sugar assert that cell phones counter the benefits of the wilderness?

10. What standard for maintaining relationships does Sugar recommend (306)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the ending of the book. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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