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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 publication was Deborah putting together?

2. Which gallery did Gabriel Wythe run?

3. Where did Lillian go for the abortion?

4. What did Samantha want from Lillian, after they moved in with Grete and Kaja?

5. From what age does Samantha say she was functionally independent?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect does the trip to Cleveland have on Samantha?

2. What led Lillian to take Samantha and leave the house where they had lived with Ken?

3. How did Lillian’s breakup with Ken affect Samantha?

4. What is the relation between the photos and the narrative Samantha creates around them?

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

6. How did Lillian become friends with Nina Pagano?

7. Who is Sam Decker, and what was his relationship with Lillian Preston?

8. How does Samantha react when Lillian tells her that they will be staying with Grete and Kaja permanently?

9. How did Lillian’s photography routine change once she and Samantha moved to Brooklyn?

10. How does Lillian characterize her attempt to get an abortion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the novel—which is presented as an exhibition catalog—as a capstone in the relationship between Lillian and Samantha. How does the catalog resolve tensions between them? What remains unresolved? What would it take to resolve what is left open?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the relationship between Myla Goldberg writing a novel about a artist mother and her daughter and the relationship between Lillian Preston making art about a mother’s relation to her daughter? How does the novel get at things a photographic series could not, and vice versa?

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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