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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 does Sugar cite as her golden rule?

2. What city is Strayed reported to live?

3. Which of the following philosophers does Sugar reference?

4. How old is Sugar when she begins swimming lessons?

5. To whom is the book dedicated?

Short Essay Questions

1. Aside from wearing a particular mask, what advice does Sugar report avoiding giving?

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

3. What point does Sugar make to the letter-writer with whom she discusses the Beauty and the Beast story?

4. How does Sugar reframe the question of whether or not someone will ever love a given person?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Strayed’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 3

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

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