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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 does Samantha describe the quality the stage gave her that she could not find anywhere else?

2. What did Sam Decker tell Samantha he took pictures of?

3. What did Samantha dress as for Halloween after Lillian’s arrest?

4. What habit did Samantha take up as a survival tactic for junior high school?

5. How many photographs did MoMA ultimately acquire?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Samantha’s (Jane’s) second summer in Cleveland like?

2. What effect did jail have on Lillian?

3. How did Samantha find out that her mother had been arrested?

4. What do the last self-portraits show?

5. How did Lillian reconnect with her high school friend Sam Decker?

6. How did the controversy about the Samantha series affect Samantha’s schooling?

7. How has Samantha’s friendship with Kaja changed in junior high school?

8. How does Lillian characterize her experience in prison?

9. What realization did Samantha arrive at when she followed her boyfriend to the party at an art collector’s house?

10. How did Nina and Lillian approach their charges differently?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When is Feast Your Eyes most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

Essay Topic 2

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 3

Identify the most important plot points in Feast Your Eyes. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

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