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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. How many jobs does Working for Two report holding?

2. What degree does Awful Jealous Person hold?

3. How long does Working for Two report being with her wife?

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

5. What female name does Sugar regard as attractive?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Drinker note as his drinking pattern?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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

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