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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 was Kaja learning about in the school she attended?
2. How did Nina characterize Lillian’s work when she saw it?
3. How did Samantha solve the problems that came with her feet being stepped on?
4. Where did Samantha stay while Lillian was in the hospital?
5. Why does Samantha say that Lillian did not notice the decline in her behavior?
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 does Nina recall having alienated herself and made herself a spectacle among the artists in New York?
3. How does Lillian characterize her experience in prison?
4. How did Samantha change herself in order to bear her hard feelings after the court found against her mother and Nina?
5. How did Lillian reconnect with her high school friend Sam Decker?
6. How did Lillian make a place for herself among the society of the women in prison?
7. How did Nina and Lillian approach their charges differently?
8. What is Samantha doing in the eight photographs known as The Samantha series?
9. What effect did jail have on Lillian?
10. How did Samantha’s second summer in Cleveland affect Lillian’s friendship with Grete?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is the audience for Feast Your Eyes? What is the ideal reader for Feast Your Eyes likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
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
What topics would you like to research further, after reading Feast Your Eyes. Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on Feast Your Eyes.
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