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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. Where did Deborah get Lillian a typing job?

2. What did Ken start to do when Lillian would not have a child with him?

3. What does Patricia Stokes say was the price for Lilly’s immense talent?

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

5. How does Samantha characterize Lillian’s expression in her self-portrait at nine weeks?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Samantha characterize Lillian’s living arrangement with Patricia Stokes?

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

3. How is Samantha’s father characterized in the novel?

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

5. What does Samantha say Item #41, Batter, meant for Kenneth and her mother?

6. What was Lillian Preston’s relation with Patricia Stokes?

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

8. What did Lillian find attractive about her pills, and what effect did they have on her?

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

10. How does the novel characterize Lillian Preston’s relationship with her parents?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What topics would you like to research further, after reading Feast Your Eyes. Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on Feast Your Eyes.

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

What is the quality that makes it hard for Lillian’s parents to support her work? What would they prefer her to do? Do they treat her fairly? How does Lillian transform her relationship with her parents over time?

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