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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. Which of Sugar’s friends lost a husband in a car crash?

2. How old is the younger of Crowded’s sons?

3. What flavor of Tic Tacs does Sugar find among her late mother’s possessions?

4. To what city does Sugar suggest Considering Going Solo might travel?

5. What class does Sugar note her mother dropped?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the child protective services worker Sugar consults note is a benefit of working with teenagers?

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

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

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

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

6. How does the book explain the origin of its respondent’s pseudonym?

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

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

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

10. What advice does Sugar offer for merging households?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what genre other than epistolary memoir might Tiny Beautiful Things be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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