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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 does Samantha say about posing nude for her mother?

2. Why does Samantha say that Lillian did not notice the decline in her behavior?

3. What did Sam offer Lillian?

4. What was the outcome of Lillian’s first solo exhibition?

5. How long did Samantha spend in Cleveland the summer after her mother’s arrest?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was Lillian’s summer without Lillian like?

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

5. What do the last self-portraits show?

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

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

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

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

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

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 2

How are artists different from other people, in Feast Your Eyes? What makes ‘other people’ different from artists? What qualities do the people who befriend artists have that other people do not have?

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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