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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. The fourth sentence of Camera states, "George's mother is" (163) what?
(a) Dead.
(b) Dying.
(c) Here.
(d) Angry.

2. During the conversation near the castle, George's mother scolded Henry for what transgression?
(a) Playing a violent video game.
(b) Interrupting.
(c) Swearing.
(d) Spitting.

3. George's eye keeps being drawn to a strip of what color in Francesco's painting?
(a) Blue.
(b) Red.
(c) Brown.
(d) White.

4. H asks George about a photograph in George's mother's study that features what town?
(a) Padua.
(b) Venice.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Ferrara.

5. What objects had George's mother liked to keep until a particular Subvert project was done?
(a) Staples.
(b) Pencil shavings.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Paper trimmings.

Short Answer Questions

1. George's mother had told George about a female Renaissance painter with what name?

2. In what way had George's mother reacted to George's confession?

3. In what grade are the young women who habitually record sounds in the bathroom at George's school?

4. George's mother told George that the castle nearby had been the site of a mass shooting how many years before?

5. When George finally confessed her transgression to her mother, she said she had been keeping the secret for what length of time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the record album entitled Tell Laura I Love Her?

2. In what ritual does George begin to engage while sitting in her garden each day?

3. What kinds of conflicts have been revealed so far within the text? Give a brief example of at least two conflicts unfolding at the center of the text.

4. What location in her bedroom does George take great pains to hide from her father and why?

5. What is the significance of Saint Catherine within the narrative?

6. Discuss an instance when Smith injects humor into a memory George has of her late mother.

7. Discuss a metaphor Smith uses to indicate George's concern that she may be unable to love.

8. What is the main method George's father uses to cope with the trauma of losing his wife?

9. What had been George's family's New Year's Eve ritual and which members of the family had participated?

10. What is the significance of George's shift away from considering a particular element of language to be very important?

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