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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. How much per hour does Sugar report paying her nanny?

2. Where does Sugar first take swimming lessons?

3. Which of the following does Sugar quote?

4. Which of the following philosophers does Sugar reference?

5. What class does Sugar note her mother dropped?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sugar characterize worry stones?

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

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

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

5. What favorable qualities does Haunted by His Sexual Past’s boyfriend have?

6. Why does Sugar relate the story about kittens on New Year’s?

7. How is the choice of Strayed to write as Sugar explained?

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

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

10. Why does Sugar hold that Mourning and Raging’s husband offended more fully than her employee?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sources attest to the presence of Tiny Beautiful Things on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the epistolary memoir? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

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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