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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 caused Samantha to stop talking to her mother?

2. What change did Lillian make in her lifestyle while Nina’s case was before the NY Supreme Court?

3. How did Lillian’s arrest affect Samantha in school?

4. How did Lillian’s arrest affect Samantha?

5. How long was Lillian in the hospital for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lillian respond to Samantha, when Samantha asked her to have another show of her work?

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

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

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

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

6. How does Goldberg characterize the last portrait of Samantha?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What is the role of men in Feast Your Eyes? How are the presented? What values do they hold, in concert or in distinction to or in opposition to the values the main women characters hold? How do men and women work together in Feast Your Eyes? How are they opposed? How are any oppositions resolved?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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