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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. How old does Happily Ever After report being?

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

3. What female name does Sugar regard as attractive?

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

5. What does Sugar cite as the primary concern in the letters from Working for Two and Responsible One?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Drinker note as his drinking pattern?

10. What questions does Sugar ask her memoir-writing students as they review student work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assuming that Tiny Beautiful Things should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Readerly attention focuses on Sugar’s comments that “You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that’s all” (130). Do your experience and what you observe in the world bear out the comments? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Conversely, what effect upon the reader manifests when real names of participants in the book are revealed? How is the effect achieved?

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