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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 does Sugar define compassion?

2. To whom does Sugar address comments about writing?

3. How old was Sugar when she met Ian?

4. How old does Sugar note being when her parents divorced?

5. Which of the following does Sugar reference?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is the choice of Strayed to write as Sugar explained?

4. Why does Sugar answer the letters from Playing It Safe, Standing Still, and Claustrophobic together?

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

6. Why does Sugar’s mother note being thankful for her ex-husband?

7. Aside from wearing a particular mask, what advice does Sugar report avoiding giving?

8. What practice of intimacy does Sugar’s husband attempt with her that neither actually enjoys?

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

10. What does Sugar offer as the best possible advice for an aspiring writer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of Tiny Beautiful Things. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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