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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. For what did Lillian use the money she got from her mother?

2. Where did Lillian go for the abortion?

3. What is Grete’s ethnicity?

4. How did Lillian’s parents finally get in touch with her and Samantha?

5. Who did Lillian Preston call the best photographer no one ever heard of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Lillian become friends with Nina Pagano?

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

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

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

8. How did Lillian reveal that she was pregnant, and how did she handle it?

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

10. How does Lillian characterize her friendship with Nina?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate the ending of Feast Your Eyes. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?

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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