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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sugar cite as a factor contributing to infidelity?
(a) Explosives.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Firearms.

2. With whom does Sugar note bonding most strongly?
(a) Benjamin.
(b) Braxton.
(c) Brandon.
(d) Braeden.

3. Which country does Sugar note having wanted to hike?
(a) Taiwan.
(b) Korea.
(c) Laos.
(d) Mongolia.

4. What animal does Sugar compare Scared of the Future to?
(a) A Tasmanian tiger.
(b) A mountain lion.
(c) A cairn terrier.
(d) A black bear.

5. With whom did Sugar do a podcast?
(a) Strayed.
(b) Fitzgerald.
(c) Almond.
(d) Elliott.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sugar cite knowledge of right living?

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

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

4. What poem is referenced in “The Lusty Broad”?

5. What is Sugar's husband's profession?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Sugar note is most unsettling about the letter LTL writes?

4. Upon what graduate school assignment does Sugar reflect?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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