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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. 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?
2. What modern object does Francescho refer to as an "awning on a stick" (119)?
3. How many "main kinds" (60) of the color green does Francescho tell Barto exist in the world?
4. Francescho recalls that her mother had named which two things as necessary in order "to get to live the life we're meant for" (112)?
5. How many years before Francescho's father's death did she officially leave her "father's tutelage" (45)?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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.
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. 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?
5. Describe the first meeting between Cosmo and Francescho.
6. How had Francescho first come to be acquainted with Barto and in what activity did they generally engage when they met thereafter?
7. 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?
8. What crime did Cosmo likely commit the night after his first encounter with Francescho?
9. Characterize Francescho's relationship with the Falcon.
10. What had Francescho's father done for a living and how had Francescho worked under his tutelage?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does Smith provide a first-person narrator to provide the perspective of Francesco, while utilizing a third-person narrator to represent George’s voice? How do these choices serve the purposes of the text? Discuss how Smith’s choice of point of view helps to advance the treatment of at least three particular themes over the course of the text.
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
Choose an object from How to Be Both, such as the snail, the Super 8 video footage, or some other symbolic object placed within the narrative. Discuss the symbol's overall meaning and its connection to broader themes within the text.
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