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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. At what age does Sugar report being sexually abused?
2. How old is Needs Direction’s erstwhile lover?
3. How old is Sugar when she begins swimming lessons?
4. What word does Sugar place opposite “love, light, acceptance, and forgiveness” (189)?
5. What city is Strayed reported to live?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the child protective services worker Sugar consults note is a benefit of working with teenagers?
2. What does Wearing Thin cite as examples of things affected by her student loans?
3. What favorable qualities does Haunted by His Sexual Past’s boyfriend have?
4. What point does Sugar make to the letter-writer with whom she discusses the Beauty and the Beast story?
5. Why does Sugar answer the letters from Playing It Safe, Standing Still, and Claustrophobic together?
6. What practice of intimacy does Sugar’s husband attempt with her that neither actually enjoys?
7. Why does Sugar hold that Mourning and Raging’s husband offended more fully than her employee?
8. How does Sugar characterize worry stones?
9. What advice does Sugar offer for merging households?
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, what effect upon the reader manifests when real names of participants in the book are revealed? How is the effect achieved?
Essay Topic 2
Section divisions, their titles, and chapter naming / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-naming scheme at work in Tiny Beautiful Things? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the epistolary memoir supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?
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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