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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. Which of the following does Fear of Asking Too Much report doing?

2. For what word does Sugar provide an etymology?

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

4. How many paragraphs does Living Dead Dad write to Sugar?

5. What drug does Sugar recommend against taking?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More broadly, what effect upon the reader does the largely epistolary format of the book have? How is that effect produced?

Essay Topic 3

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

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