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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 spend in Cleveland the summer after her mother’s arrest?

2. What kind of lawyer took Nina and Lillian’s case?

3. What does Lillian tell Deborah was essential for getting her through chemo?

4. How did Nina characterize Lillian’s work when she saw it?

5. What habit did Samantha take up as a survival tactic for junior high school?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Lillian handle her interview with the MoMA curator?

4. What do the last self-portraits show?

5. How did the controversy about the Samantha series affect Samantha’s schooling?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What can we tell about Myla Goldberg, based on the choices she makes in terms of description, characterization and plot? What values does she hold dear? What are her hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

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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