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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 old was Ian when he was burned?

2. what author does Sugar recommend to the mother of a miscarried child?

3. What does Sugar cite as her golden rule?

4. At what age does Sugar report being sexually abused?

5. What city is Strayed reported to live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice does Sugar offer for merging households?

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

3. What does Sugar cite as “feminism’s one true failure” (182)?

4. What does Wearing Thin cite as examples of things affected by her student loans?

5. What does Sugar note as a complication in friendships?

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

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

8. Why does Sugar note the youth with whom she worked in advocacy esteemed her?

9. What does Sugar note that the graduates she addresses do NOT have to do?

10. How does Sugar characterize worry stones?

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

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?

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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