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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. How many paintings by Cosmo does Francescho count in the museum room where she sees only one of her own paintings being displayed?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 8.
(d) 3.

2. The Falcon told Francescho that the figure of Minerva required what kind of accompaniment?
(a) Wings.
(b) Unicorns.
(c) Horns.
(d) Bears.

3. Francescho explains that she had committed herself to becoming an expert at painting which parts of the human body?
(a) Elbows.
(b) Hands.
(c) Ears.
(d) Calves.

4. What kind of a poem occurs on the first pages of the novel section entitled Eyes?
(a) A villanelle.
(b) A haiku.
(c) A quatrain.
(d) A shaped poem.

5. What had young Francesco expected her father to do once he overcame his grief enough to confront her about wearing her mothers' clothes?
(a) She had expected him to turn away from her.
(b) She had expected him to curse at her.
(c) She had expected him to beat her.
(d) She had expected him to send her to her room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What royal title did Borse hold when he commissioned Francescho to help paint a fresco?

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

3. Francescho recalls lying on the ground and being found by which character when she was near death?

4. With what type of poem does Francescho end the section of text entitled Eyes?

5. What modern object does Francescho refer to as an "awning on a stick" (119)?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason had Francescho eventually been banned from the brothel in Reggio?

2. With whom had Francescho spent her final moments and what is revealed to be the fate of this character?

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

4. Describe the first meeting between Cosmo and Francescho.

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

6. What is "the rite of Mnemosyne" (127) and who proposed its use to Francescho?

7. Discuss an instance when Smith employs modern language to present the voice of Francescho and analyze her purpose for doing so.

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

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

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

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