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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. What does the introduction of Tiny Beautiful Things suggest Sugar offers her readers?

2. What word does Sugar note having coined?

3. How does Sugar note children deserve to be loved?

4. What artistic principle does Sugar describe to Man Juggler?

5. Which reality show franchise does Sugar reference?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the book explain the origin of its respondent’s pseudonym?

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

3. How does Sugar characterize worry stones?

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

5. Why does Sugar’s mother note being thankful for her ex-husband?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of places, what would likely prompt bans of Tiny Beautiful Things? By which groups? Why?

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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