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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 much does Sugar report having in outstanding student loan debt?

2. At what age does Over It report having been assaulted?

3. In what year of high school is Worried Friend when she writes to Sugar?

4. To where does Sugar assert all roads lead?

5. Approximately how many letter-writers respond to Sugar’s responses?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is noted as “the first and final act of love” in the book (7)?

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

3. How does Sugar suggest Bewildered comfort his fiancée?

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

5. What advice does Sugar offer for merging households?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Readerly attention focuses on Sugar’s comments that “You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that’s all” (130). Do your experience and what you observe in the world bear out the comments? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

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

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