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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 the letter-writer in “The Empty Bowl” cite as the final unacceptable conduct of her father?

2. What degree does Awful Jealous Person hold?

3. What color dress does Sugar’s mother buy for her daughter?

4. What kind of stone does Sugar identify among her children’s possessions?

5. What does Sugar cite as the primary concern in the letters from Working for Two and Responsible One?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Drinker note as his drinking pattern?

2. What questions does Sugar ask her memoir-writing students as they review student work?

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

4. How does Triangled hear about Friend or Foe’s assignation?

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

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

7. How does the dress Sugar’s mother buys for her daughter serves as an example of becoming?

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

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

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

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

Overall, what is the most important theme of Tiny Beautiful Things. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Select one of the letters included in the book. Write your own response to it, following the overall format of Sugar’s responses to the letter-writers.

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