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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 Sugar cite as an aggravation of wedding-planning?

2. What term does Sugar note not having previously understood?

3. What does Sugar note was stolen from her yard sale?

4. To what drug is the wife of the letter-writer of “Transcend” addicted?

5. What does Sugar recommend to Drinker?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what does the letter-writer in “Bend” ascribe her emotional affair?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Sugar identify as the worst role in her first-responder training?

8. Upon what graduate school assignment does Sugar reflect?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part VI: We Are Solid is noted as being something of a postscript, a later addition to the original text. What shifts in tone and impact exist between the section and those preceding it? What in the text presents those shifts, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Both the letter-writers whose concerns are addressed in the book and the respondent most commonly operate under pseudonyms (that is, false names). What functions does the pseudonymization serve? What in the book indicates as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

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