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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. Of what kind of gum does Sugar note the youth with whom she worked in advocacy smelled?

2. To where does Sugar assert all roads lead?

3. Which organization’s website does Sugar recommend?

4. With whom did Trustee’s father have an affair?

5. How old is Sugar when her grandfather dies?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Sugar reframe the question of whether or not someone will ever love a given person?

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

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

7. How does Sugar characterize worry stones?

8. How does Sugar suggest Bewildered comfort his fiancée?

9. What questions does Sugar note having asked herself when considering becoming a parent?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

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

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Strayed’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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