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

2. What game would Samantha and Nina play on weekends after Lillian’s arrest?

3. How did Samantha put up a protest against how things were going for her in junior high school?

4. How many photographs did MoMA ultimately acquire?

5. Why did Samantha’s grandparents refuse to take her to see Kaja?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lillian repair her relationship with Samantha?

2. How has Samantha’s view of Mommy is Sick changed, now that she is an adult?

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

4. What realization did Samantha arrive at when she followed her boyfriend to the party at an art collector’s house?

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

6. How does Samantha characterize Lillian’s first one-woman show, and how was the show received?

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

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

9. How did Samantha find out that her mother had been arrested?

10. How did Nina’s case fare at the Supreme Court?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the quality that makes it hard for Lillian’s parents to support her work? What would they prefer her to do? Do they treat her fairly? How does Lillian transform her relationship with her parents over time?

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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