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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 unusual job did Cary Grant once have?

2. How long does Responsible One note her husband has been unemployed?

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

4. What social media does Sugar describe as among “heartbreak torture machines” (253)?

5. What is the name of Sugar’s sister?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Sugar refer to the couches she and her husband had early in their marriage as dueling couches?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

How reliable a narrator is the respondent of the epistolary memoir? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

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