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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 quality does Francesco come to suspect is "central to" the "nature" (90) of the young woman she is watching in the modern age?
2. Francesco finally is able to recall that she had died from what malady?
3. How many paintings by Cosmo does Francescho count in the museum room where she sees only one of her own paintings being displayed?
4. For what amount of time had young Francescho worn her late mother's clothing before her father confronted her?
5. Who protected Francescho from being taken as a sex slave by Borse?
Short Essay Questions
1. What assumption does Francescho make about the person she observes looking at a painting in the museum and what event makes her sure that she had been mistaken?
2. What evidence does Francescho provide for her claim that there were other women in Renaissance-era Italy who posed as men in order to pursue careers in art?
3. What had Francescho's father done for a living and how had Francescho worked under his tutelage?
4. How had Francescho first come to be acquainted with Barto and in what activity did they generally engage when they met thereafter?
5. What name does Francesco's father recommend she take and for what reason does she reject his suggestion?
6. For what reason did the protagonist of Eyes have need of a new name?
7. Name two themes contained in one quote within the novel's Epigraph section.
8. For what reason had Francescho eventually been banned from the brothel in Reggio?
9. Which element of the fresco in Borse's palace had the Falcon insisted must be changed in order to avoid the wrath of Borse and others?
10. What is Francescho's attitude toward the painter called Cosmo?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sensory details are used frequently by Smith in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of How to Be Both. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Smith’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Smith’s novel How to Be Both. What message is Smith sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Smith’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of How to Be Both.
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