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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 has happened to the Christmas tree in Item #59, Christmas tree?
2. What emotion did Lillian’s face show, when Ken asked her to move to Brooklyn with him?
3. How did Samantha respond to Lillian’s news that they were going to move out of Ken’s house?
4. What did Samantha want from Lillian, after they moved in with Grete and Kaja?
5. What does Lillian Preston’s photo of the Times Square recruit indicate her interest in, according to Samantha?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Lillian reveal that she was pregnant, and how did she handle it?
2. How does Samantha characterize her reaction to her mother exhibiting photos that show her nude?
3. What was Lillian Preston’s bequest to her daughter?
4. How does Lillian characterize her friendship with Nina?
5. How does Samantha say Lillian set up her camera shots?
6. How did Lillian’s breakup with Ken affect Samantha?
7. What was Lillian Preston’s relation with Patricia Stokes?
8. What is the relation between the photos and the narrative Samantha creates around them?
9. 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?
10. Who is the narrator of the introduction of Feast Your Eyes, and what is her relation to Lillian Preston?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
What is the importance of friendship in Feast Your Eyes? What are the main friendships presented? What value do they hold in the novel? How is the value of friendships distinguished from other kinds of relationships?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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