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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. Who did Nina think made the complaint that got her and Lillian arrested?

2. What did Lillian’s father tell her he had always wanted to do?

3. What does Samantha say about posing nude for her mother?

4. What does Lillian say she found beauty in after getting out of jail?

5. What was Nina’s demeanor while she was being arrested?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What story did Lillian’s father tell her on the way to chemo at the hospital that made a middle ground between them?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Lillian characterize her experience in prison?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate your own reading of Feast Your Eyes—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

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

Analyze the novel—which is presented as an exhibition catalog—as a capstone in the relationship between Lillian and Samantha. How does the catalog resolve tensions between them? What remains unresolved? What would it take to resolve what is left open?

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