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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 long does Working for Two report being with her wife?

2. How old does Sugar report being during the COVID pandemic?

3. As which of the following does Sugar gloss "Praestigiae"?

4. Which of the following authors does Sugar reference?

5. How old does Happily Ever After report being?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Upon what graduate school assignment does Sugar reflect?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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