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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 two terms had mysteriously flitted through George's head every time her mother had gotten out her phone during the trip to Italy?
(a) Anger and desperation.
(b) Guilt and fury.
(c) Joy and adoration.
(d) Joy and sadness.

2. What term indicating class status had George's father used to describe Lisa?
(a) Proletariat.
(b) Socialite.
(c) Jet-setter.
(d) Middle class.

3. How many screens had George been viewing at once when her mother told her she was "a migrant of [her] own existence" (194)?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

4. In a significant moment within the conversation in Italy, George's mother told her, "You know, Georgie, nothing's not" (250) what?
(a) Historically relevant.
(b) Connected.
(c) Significant.
(d) Meaningful.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Henry in the narrative present?

2. H refuses an invitation from George's father to stay for what meal during her third visit?

3. What emotion is Henry really feeling when he tells George that he is bored?

4. What objects had George's mother liked to keep until a particular Subvert project was done?

5. George allows H to push her in what kind of a wheeled object?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the damage in George's house symbolize?

3. Give an example of a piece of dialogue in How to Be Both that reflects the theme of connection.

4. What does George tell her father after he discovers her in the garden engaging in her daily ritual?

5. What timeline does George provide on the first page of the section entitled Eyes and what is its significance?

6. Describe the conversation George has with Mrs. Rock about her mother's criticism of a certain politician.

7. What two contradictory terms does George use to describe the atmosphere of the Italian town called Ferrara that she had visited with her mother and brother Henry?

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

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

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

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