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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 romantic gesture does H make toward George for the first time on her third visit to George's house?
2. In what grade are the young women who habitually record sounds in the bathroom at George's school?
3. What term indicating class status had George's father applied to George's mother's class origins?
4. What position does Mrs. Rock hold within George's secondary school?
5. The streets of the Italian town in which the museum lies are "full of people" (214) using which two forms of transportation?
Short Essay Questions
1. What location in her bedroom does George take great pains to hide from her father and why?
2. What two contradictory terms does George use to describe the atmosphere of the Italian town called Ferrara that she had visited with her mother and brother Henry?
3. Give an example of a piece of dialogue in How to Be Both that reflects the theme of connection.
4. What kinds of conflicts have been revealed so far within the text? Give a brief example of at least two conflicts unfolding at the center of the text.
5. What had been George's family's New Year's Eve ritual and which members of the family had participated?
6. What does the damage in George's house symbolize?
7. What piece of information did George's mother forget during their time in Italy and why did this event upset George?
8. For what reason is George unable to find out what songs her mother had danced to during her morning ritual?
9. What clues led George to think that her mother had been put under surveillance prior to her death?
10. What timeline does George provide on the first page of the section entitled Eyes and what is its significance?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Smith’s novel How to Be Both. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Smith’s novel How to Be Both. What message is Smith sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?
Essay Topic 3
Examine the novel How to Be Both from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?
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