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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. For what kind of pie does Sugar ask?

2. For how many hours each week did Sugar hire a nanny?

3. How does Sugar define acceptance?

4. What was Strayed’s debut novel?

5. At what age does Sugar’s grandfather die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Sugar report inheriting from her mother?

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

7. What revelation does Sugar’s encounter outside her job in London spur in her?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

More broadly, what effect upon the reader does the largely epistolary format of the book have? How is that effect produced?

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

How reliable a narrator is the respondent of the epistolary memoir? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

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