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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 word does Sugar note having coined?

2. Which of the following does Sugar quote?

3. Which of Shakespeare’s plays does Sugar reference?

4. Which of Eudora Welty's works does Sugar quote?

5. How old does Sugar note being when her mother died?

Short Essay Questions

1. What questions does Sugar note having asked herself when considering becoming a parent?

2. What are the things Sugar asserts Gump does not know he does not know?

3. Why does Sugar note the youth with whom she worked in advocacy esteemed her?

4. How does Sugar characterize worry stones?

5. What does Wearing Thin cite as examples of things affected by her student loans?

6. How does the text define “dry dating” (136)?

7. What does Sugar report inheriting from her mother?

8. What does Sugar note that the graduates she addresses do NOT have to do?

9. What reasons does Sugar posit for Crowded’s sons to resist leaving home?

10. Why does Sugar relate the story about kittens on New Year’s?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Readerly attention focuses on Sugar’s comments that “You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that’s all” (130). Do your experience and what you observe in the world bear out the comments? How or how not?

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