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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 term does Sugar note not having previously understood?

2. How long does Responsible One note her husband has been unemployed?

3. What social media does Sugar describe as among “heartbreak torture machines” (253)?

4. Where did Sugar retreat to on her wedding day?

5. To what does Sugar compare her parents?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Upon what graduate school assignment does Sugar reflect?

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

7. What does Drinker note as his drinking pattern?

8. What does Sugar note is most unsettling about the letter LTL writes?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How reliable a narrator is the respondent of the epistolary memoir? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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