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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 drug does C report her brother uses?

2. With whom did Sugar do a podcast?

3. What drug does Sugar recommend against taking?

4. What male name does Sugar regard as attractive?

5. Which of the following does Fear of Asking Too Much report doing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Drinker note as his drinking pattern?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the worst *physical* abuse C reports her brother perpetrating on her?

9. What is the worst *mental* abuse C reports her brother perpetrating on her?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How reliable a narrator is the respondent of the epistolary memoir? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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