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

2. How did Lillian make friends with her black neighbors when Lillian and Samantha moved to a mixed-race neighborhood?

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

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

5. What symptom lingered after Lillian’s weekend in jail?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lillian make a place for herself among the society of the women in prison?

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

3. How does Lillian characterize her experience in prison?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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