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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 does Stromlin describe Lillian’s pictures in his review of the Lacuna exhibit?

2. Why were Samantha’s feet stepped on in her first day of junior high school?

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

4. How did Lillian describe Sam when she reunited with him?

5. How did Samantha solve the problems that came with her feet being stepped on?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Nina recall having alienated herself and made herself a spectacle among the artists in New York?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the most important plot points in Feast Your Eyes. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

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

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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