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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. What language did Sugar study?

2. At what age does Sugar report starting work?

3. To where does Sugar assert all roads lead?

4. At what age does Considering Going Solo report starting to play bass?

5. How old was Sugar when she met Ian?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Sugar’s mother note being thankful for her ex-husband?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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