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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 much does Sugar’s mother pay for the dress she buys her daughter?

2. What does Sugar cite as an aggravation of wedding-planning?

3. How long does Working for Two report being with her wife?

4. What does Sugar note was stolen from her yard sale?

5. What poem is referenced in “The Lusty Broad”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the first piece of advice Sugar asserts she would give to her twenty-something self?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What general advice for what NOT to do does Sugar give?

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

Part VI: We Are Solid is noted as being something of a postscript, a later addition to the original text. What shifts in tone and impact exist between the section and those preceding it? What in the text presents those shifts, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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

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