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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. Francescho recalls lying on the ground and being found by which character when she was near death?
2. What is the name of the woman whom Francescho draws rather than engaging in sex with her?
3. What word does Francescho consistently shorten in a modern way throughout the her first-person narration of Eyes?
4. Francescho's resentment toward Cosmo cools only when she calls to mind how many lessons she had learned from him?
5. Around which object did Francescho paint "a gathering of working women" (110)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What evidence does Francescho provide for her claim that there were other women in Renaissance-era Italy who posed as men in order to pursue careers in art?
2. In what way is the novel How to Be Both a piece of interactive fiction?
3. Describe the first meeting between Cosmo and Francescho.
4. Describe Francescho's reaction to an aspect of technology in the modern world.
5. What crime did Cosmo likely commit the night after his first encounter with Francescho?
6. Discuss an instance when Smith employs modern language to present the voice of Francescho and analyze her purpose for doing so.
7. For what reason did the protagonist of Eyes have need of a new name?
8. What assumption does Francescho make about the person she observes looking at a painting in the museum and what event makes her sure that she had been mistaken?
9. What is "the rite of Mnemosyne" (127) and who proposed its use to Francescho?
10. What is the setting of the novel section entitled Eyes? Include in your answer the era, location, and situation depicted in the opening passages of How to Be Both.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What message does Smith send within the pages of How to Be Both concerning the effectiveness of different methods used to deal with grief?
Essay Topic 2
How do the themes of truth, lies, and hypocrisy function within How to Be Both and what is Smith’s message regarding these themes?
Essay Topic 3
Why does Smith provide a first-person narrator to provide the perspective of Francesco, while utilizing a third-person narrator to represent George’s voice? How do these choices serve the purposes of the text? Discuss how Smith’s choice of point of view helps to advance the treatment of at least three particular themes over the course of the text.
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