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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 is the Ro-ro?
2. What was Katherine House?
3. What occasion does the narrator give for commenting on Lillian Preston’s life and work?
4. What led Lillian to start using pills?
5. Where did Grete take Kaja and Samantha to get them out of the house while Lillian was feeling ill after the abortion?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where did Lillian work through her pregnancy and after?
2. How did Lillian and Samantha end up moving to Brooklyn?
3. What were the advantages and disadvantages of the Ro-ro camera?
4. How did Lillian’s photography routine change once she and Samantha moved to Brooklyn?
5. How does Samantha characterize Lillian’s living arrangement with Patricia Stokes?
6. What does Samantha say Item #41, Batter, meant for Kenneth and her mother?
7. What was Lillian Preston’s bequest to her daughter?
8. How does Lillian characterize her attempt to get an abortion?
9. How did Lillian’s breakup with Ken affect Samantha?
10. What was Lillian Preston’s relation with Patricia Stokes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate your own reading of Feast Your Eyes—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
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
What does Feast Your Eyes tell us about the relationship between mothers and daughters? Is the relationship between Lillian and Samantha successful? How would you define success for that relationship?
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