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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. On what day of the week did the youth with whom Sugar worked have a communal dinner?

2. Which of the following anthologies does Sugar report reading?

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

4. What does Sugar describe Happily Ever After as?

5. How long does Working for Two report being with her wife?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Sugar refer to the couches she and her husband had early in their marriage as dueling couches?

4. How does Sugar report trying to quell the nagging voice inside her head?

5. What general advice for what NOT to do does Sugar give?

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

7. What weird thing does Sugar report happening to her?

8. How does Sugar note a person can find forgiveness?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter naming / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-naming scheme at work in Tiny Beautiful Things? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the epistolary memoir supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

To what genre other than epistolary memoir might Tiny Beautiful Things be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

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