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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 male name does Sugar regard as attractive?

2. On what platform does Sugar publish her ongoing column?

3. What drug does C report her brother uses?

4. As which of the following does Sugar note she would represent herself?

5. What job does Working for Two report having suggested to her wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the worst *mental* abuse C reports her brother perpetrating on her?

2. For what reason does Helpless Mom report functioning as a single mother despite being married?

3. After her salutation, what is the first thing Sugar replies to Awful Jealous Person (258)?

4. To what does the letter-writer in “Bend” ascribe her emotional affair?

5. How does the dress Sugar’s mother buys for her daughter serves as an example of becoming?

6. How does Sugar explain what it means to transcend?

7. What does Sugar note prompted her decision to become a parent?

8. Why does Sugar assert that cell phones counter the benefits of the wilderness?

9. What does Sugar identify as the worst role in her first-responder training?

10. What story does Sugar tell her husband that provokes the comment “You don’t have to be broken for me” (221)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the epistolary memoir, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the ending of the book. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

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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