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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 is Samantha doing in the last portrait her mother took of her?

2. What did Samantha dress as for Halloween after Lillian’s arrest?

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

4. Why does Samantha say she hates the picture Mommy is Sick?

5. How often does Samantha say Lillian spoke of jail after she was arrested?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect did jail have on Lillian?

2. What effect did the court ruling have on Lillian and Samantha?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Lillian characterize her experience in prison?

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

10. What was Samantha’s (Jane’s) second summer in Cleveland like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the role of photography in Feast Your Eyes? What effect does it have on the characters who practice it? What does it offer them? What does it demand? How is it similar to or different from other forms of art in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Write an evaluative review of Feast Your Eyes. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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