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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 old was Standing Still when she got married?

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

3. Where does Sugar first take swimming lessons?

4. what author does Sugar recommend to the mother of a miscarried child?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sugar cite as a deciding factor in which letters get answers from her?

2. Sugar remarks that disclosing trauma to intimate partners helps to further intimacy. What else does she note it does?

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

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

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

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

7. How does Sugar suggest Bewildered comfort his fiancée?

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

9. How does Sugar euthanize the baby bird she finds with a broken neck?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that Tiny Beautiful Things should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of places, what would likely prompt bans of Tiny Beautiful Things? By which groups? Why?

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