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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. Who is the first writer whose letter is addressed in the book?

2. How old is Needs Direction’s erstwhile lover?

3. To whom is the book dedicated?

4. To where does Sugar assert all roads lead?

5. What does the introduction of Tiny Beautiful Things suggest Sugar offers her readers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Sugar note that the graduates she addresses will be all right?

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

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

5. What advice does Sugar offer for merging households?

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

7. What does Sugar note as a complication in friendships?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Both the letter-writers whose concerns are addressed in the book and the respondent most commonly operate under pseudonyms (that is, false names). What functions does the pseudonymization serve? What in the book indicates as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

To what extent does the respondent persona differ from the author? What in the text indicates as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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

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