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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 photo called Mommy is Sick a picture of?

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

3. What did Charles Roberts do to get Lillian’s attention?

4. How long a focal distance did Lillian Preston use in her images?

5. How much did Lillian give the abortion provider before she ran out?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Samantha react when Lillian tells her that they will be staying with Grete and Kaja permanently?

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

3. How does Goldberg characterize Kenny Lowell?

4. 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?

5. What is the relation between the photos and the narrative Samantha creates around them?

6. How does Samantha say Lillian set up her camera shots?

7. What effect does the trip to Cleveland have on Samantha?

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

9. Who is the narrator of the introduction of Feast Your Eyes, and what is her relation to Lillian Preston?

10. How did Lillian document her pregnancy?

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

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 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.

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