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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 cracker does Sugar note having eaten to excess?

2. What is Sugar's husband's profession?

3. To what does Sugar compare her parents?

4. What is the name of Sugar’s sister?

5. To what drug is the wife of the letter-writer of “Transcend” addicted?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What stressors does Spent report in her letter to Sugar?

3. What is the worst *physical* abuse C reports her brother perpetrating on her?

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

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

6. What questions does Sugar ask her memoir-writing students as they review student work?

7. What standard for maintaining relationships does Sugar recommend (306)?

8. What does Drinker note as his drinking pattern?

9. How does Triangled hear about Friend or Foe’s assignation?

10. How does Sugar describe jeans in the wake of a breakup?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Conversely, what effect upon the reader manifests when real names of participants in the book are revealed? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 2

Part VI: We Are Solid is noted as being something of a postscript, a later addition to the original text. What shifts in tone and impact exist between the section and those preceding it? What in the text presents those shifts, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Select one of the letters included in the book. Write your own response to it, following the overall format of Sugar’s responses to the letter-writers.

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