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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. How long did Samantha go to Cleveland for after Lillian’s first solo show?

2. How did Samantha solve the problems that came with her feet being stepped on?

3. How long was Lillian in the hospital for?

4. Why does Samantha say that Lillian did not notice the decline in her behavior?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lillian characterize her experience in prison?

2. How does Goldberg characterize Samantha’s arrival in junior high school?

3. How was Samantha’s school career altered by the Supreme Court verdict in Nina’s case?

4. How did Lillian make a place for herself among the society of the women in prison?

5. How did Nina and Lillian approach their charges differently?

6. What effect did jail have on Lillian?

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

8. How did Lillian repair her relationship with Samantha?

9. What is Samantha doing in the eight photographs known as The Samantha series?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

How are artists different from other people, in Feast Your Eyes? What makes ‘other people’ different from artists? What qualities do the people who befriend artists have that other people do not have?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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