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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 the following does Daughter with (Maybe) Expired Daddy Issues cite as belonging to “normality” (187)?

2. What word does Sugar trace back into Latin?

3. Where does Sugar situate the physical sensation of anger?

4. What does Sugar note buying?

5. Which of the following does Sugar quote?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sugar report inheriting from her mother?

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

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

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

5. What advice does Sugar offer for merging households?

6. How does Sugar euthanize the baby bird she finds with a broken neck?

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

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

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

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

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 2

More broadly, what effect upon the reader does the largely epistolary format of the book have? How is that effect produced?

Essay Topic 3

Select one of the letters included in the book. Write your own response to it, following the overall format of Sugar’s responses to the letter-writers.

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