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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 reptile does Sugar assert love would be, were it a reptile?

2. Over what does Sugar report her children fight?

3. What does Sugar recommend to Drinker?

4. Which of the following poems does Sugar reference?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Strayed’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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