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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 much did Lillian give the abortion provider before she ran out?

2. Which gallery did Gabriel Wythe run?

3. How does Samantha characterize herself as a child?

4. What kind of publication was Deborah putting together?

5. How does Lillian say she feels when she is not taking photographs?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lillian and Samantha end up moving to Brooklyn?

2. What does Patricia Stokes say about Lillian’s talent?

3. What effect does the narrator say Lillian Preston’s photography had on her when she discovered it?

4. What was Lillian Preston’s bequest to her daughter?

5. How did Lillian document her pregnancy?

6. Where did Lillian work through her pregnancy and after?

7. How does Deborah characterize the conversation that took place when Lillian’s father came to the apartment to try to take her back to Cleveland?

8. How does Samantha characterize her reaction to her mother exhibiting photos that show her nude?

9. What were the advantages and disadvantages of the Ro-ro camera?

10. How does Goldberg characterize Kenny Lowell?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

How do you interpret the questions that surround the obscenity of the Samantha series? How does the novel represent the images? Who entertains which different views of the Samantha series? What questions do the images raise? How does the novel arrive at its verdict about their artistic value versus their obscenity?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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