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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action did young Francescho's father take when confronting Francescho about wearing her mother's clothing?
(a) He sat down in front of her and talked to her.
(b) He cursed at her.
(c) He beat her.
(d) He threw her out of the house.

2. Francescho comes to believe that the teenage girl she is observing unseen is experiencing which emotion?
(a) Grief.
(b) Relief.
(c) Love.
(d) Regret.

3. According to Francescho, who comforted her in her childhood when she cried after seeing a particular object disappear?
(a) Her younger brother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her older sister.

4. Francescho's resentment toward Cosmo cools only when she calls to mind how many lessons she had learned from him?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

5. As Francescho stands in a museum looking at his own work and that of other artists after having traveled in time, what century is it?
(a) The 20th.
(b) The 21st.
(c) The 15th.
(d) The 16th.

Short Answer Questions

1. Francescho sees the two siblings in the museum taking what action together?

2. Francesco chooses her male name in part because which member of her family had a name starting with the letter F?

3. What was NOT a scent Francesco reported detecting during her sexual encounter with the "infidel" (87) stranger?

4. What type of ending did the story about the Virgin, the angel, and the boy have, though Francesco had not known this fact until much later?

5. The artist referred to as "the Falcon" (14) had wanted which kind of figures painted into the March section of the fresco depicting the four seasons?

Short Essay Questions

1. How had Francescho first come to be acquainted with Barto and in what activity did they generally engage when they met thereafter?

2. What story does Francescho recount about "the infidel worker" (83) whose likeness she had eventually painted into Borse's fresco?

3. For what reason did the protagonist of Eyes have need of a new name?

4. What is the setting of the novel section entitled Eyes? Include in your answer the era, location, and situation depicted in the opening passages of How to Be Both.

5. Describe Francescho's reaction to an aspect of technology in the modern world.

6. What quality does Francescho "sense" is "central to" the "nature" (84) of the young woman whom she observes throughout the narrative?

7. What crime did Cosmo likely commit the night after his first encounter with Francescho?

8. Characterize Francescho's relationship with the Falcon.

9. In what way is the novel How to Be Both a piece of interactive fiction?

10. How does the theme of family bonds arise within Francescho's statement about his top three most influential artists?

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