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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 bird does Sugar assert love would be, were it an animal?

2. For what level of degree is the letter-writer of “Transcend” studying?

3. What kind of stone does Sugar identify among her children’s possessions?

4. What term does Sugar note not having previously understood?

5. Which country does Sugar note having wanted to bicycle across?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of places, what would likely prompt bans of Tiny Beautiful Things? By which groups? Why?

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

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

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