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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 did Tsaregorodcev do that caused Lillian to storm out of his office?

2. How did Lyonel Tsaregorodcev characterize Lillian’s work at the MoMA portfolio day?

3. Where had Samantha been while Lillian was being arrested?

4. What was the trauma to which Grete responded by making a 20-foot shroud?

5. Why did Nina and Lillian spend three days in jail?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the last self-portraits show?

3. What effect did jail have on Lillian?

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

5. How does Goldberg characterize the last portrait of Samantha?

6. Why did Lillian’s parents always return to the same booth at the same restaurant while she was in treatment?

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

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

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

10. How does Samantha characterize Lillian’s first one-woman show, and how was the show received?

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

Analyze the novel—which is presented as an exhibition catalog—as a capstone in the relationship between Lillian and Samantha. How does the catalog resolve tensions between them? What remains unresolved? What would it take to resolve what is left open?

Essay Topic 3

How do you interpret the questions that surround the obscenity of the Samantha series? How does the novel represent the images? Who entertains which different views of the Samantha series? What questions do the images raise? How does the novel arrive at its verdict about their artistic value versus their obscenity?

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