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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 role does Lillian say Nina’s friendship occupied in her life?
2. How did Samantha respond to Lillian’s news that they were going to move out of Ken’s house?
3. Which gallery did Gabriel Wythe run?
4. How does Samantha characterize the nature of the trip to her parents’ house?
5. Who did Lillian Preston call the best photographer no one ever heard of?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Lillian become friends with Nina Pagano?
2. How does Samantha say Lillian set up her camera shots?
3. How is Samantha’s father characterized in the novel?
4. What was Lillian Preston’s relation with Patricia Stokes?
5. How did Lillian’s breakup with Ken affect Samantha?
6. How did Lillian reveal that she was pregnant, and how did she handle it?
7. Who is the narrator of the introduction of Feast Your Eyes, and what is her relation to Lillian Preston?
8. What was Lillian Preston’s bequest to her daughter?
9. Who is Sam Decker, and what was his relationship with Lillian Preston?
10. How does Samantha react when Lillian tells her that they will be staying with Grete and Kaja permanently?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
When is Feast Your Eyes most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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