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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. Why did Grete ask Lillian to leave her house for her reaction to her 20-foot shroud?

2. What was it that got Lillian to go to the doctor for a diagnosis?

3. Where does Item #71 show the effects of Lillian’s imprisonment?

4. How long was Lillian in the hospital for?

5. What act of devotion does Samantha say her grandmother performed for Lillian?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did it come about that Lillian realized that she was sick?

2. How did Lillian and Samantha connect with Franny Panic separately?

3. Why did Lillian’s parents always return to the same booth at the same restaurant while she was in treatment?

4. What was Samantha’s (Jane’s) second summer in Cleveland like?

5. How did Samantha change herself in order to bear her hard feelings after the court found against her mother and Nina?

6. How did Lillian repair her relationship with Samantha?

7. How does Lillian characterize her experience in prison?

8. How did Samantha’s second summer in Cleveland affect Lillian’s friendship with Grete?

9. How has Samantha’s friendship with Kaja changed in junior high school?

10. How did Lillian reconnect with her high school friend Sam Decker?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the most important plot points in Feast Your Eyes. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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