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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 does Deborah recall her time living with Lillian?
2. How much money did Lillian have to raise to pay for the abortion?
3. How does Deborah characterize Lillian’s skills in the darkroom?
4. How does Samantha characterize her feelings on meeting her grandparents?
5. When was the first photo in the exhibition taken?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Samantha characterize Lillian’s living arrangement with Patricia Stokes?
2. How did Lillian become friends with Nina Pagano?
3. How did Lillian’s photography routine change once she and Samantha moved to Brooklyn?
4. What effect does the trip to Cleveland have on Samantha?
5. How did Lillian document her pregnancy?
6. How did the narrator of the introduction meet Lillian Preston’s daughter Samantha?
7. What was Lillian Preston’s bequest to her daughter?
8. 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?
9. What led Lillian to take Samantha and leave the house where they had lived with Ken?
10. How does Goldberg characterize Kenny Lowell?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
What is the role of photography in Feast Your Eyes? What effect does it have on the characters who practice it? What does it offer them? What does it demand? How is it similar to or different from other forms of art in the book?
Essay Topic 3
Who is the audience for Feast Your Eyes? What is the ideal reader for Feast Your Eyes likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
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