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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. Whom does Sugar identify as the author of the commonly known French Beauty and the Beast story?
2. What unusual job does Sugar note having had?
3. Which of the following does Daughter with (Maybe) Expired Daddy Issues cite as belonging to “normality” (187)?
4. What word does Sugar note having coined?
5. Which of the following does Sugar reference?
Short Essay Questions
1. What favorable qualities does Haunted by His Sexual Past’s boyfriend have?
2. What is noted as “the first and final act of love” in the book (7)?
3. What does Wearing Thin cite as examples of things affected by her student loans?
4. What questions does Sugar note having asked herself when considering becoming a parent?
5. Why does Sugar hold that Mourning and Raging’s husband offended more fully than her employee?
6. What advice does Sugar offer for merging households?
7. How does Sugar characterize worry stones?
8. What point does Sugar make to the letter-writer with whom she discusses the Beauty and the Beast story?
9. What revelation does Sugar’s encounter outside her job in London spur in her?
10. What does Sugar offer as the best possible advice for an aspiring writer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the epistolary memoir, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?
Essay Topic 2
Both the letter-writers whose concerns are addressed in the book and the respondent most commonly operate under pseudonyms (that is, false names). What functions does the pseudonymization serve? What in the book indicates as much, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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