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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. How old was Sugar when she met Ian?

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

4. What is noted as “the essential work of literary art” (8)?

5. How much does Sugar report having in outstanding student loan debt?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sugar cite as “feminism’s one true failure” (182)?

2. What advice does Sugar offer for merging households?

3. Why does Sugar suggest people in their twenties buy and read books of poetry?

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

5. What favorable qualities does Haunted by His Sexual Past’s boyfriend have?

6. What does the book note is “literature’s greatest superpower” (xi)?

7. What does Sugar insist will afford Wearing Thin more freedom?

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

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

10. Why does Sugar hold that Mourning and Raging’s husband offended more fully than her employee?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Sources attest to the presence of Tiny Beautiful Things on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the epistolary memoir? How does it do so?

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