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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 kind of cancer befell Scared of the Future’s mother?

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

3. How does Sugar describe her story about her children’s fight?

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

5. To what does Sugar compare her parents?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Drinker note as his drinking pattern?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Consider the ending of the book. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

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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