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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. Barto introduced a therapeutic method to Francescho involving which object?
2. Around which object did Francescho paint "a gathering of working women" (110)?
3. Which ingredient did Francescho always use to create richer colors of paint?
4. Francescho says that she bought her first horse from a woman who owned fields outside of which city?
5. The artist referred to as "the Falcon" (14) had wanted which kind of figures painted into the March section of the fresco depicting the four seasons?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way is the novel How to Be Both a piece of interactive fiction?
2. What is "the rite of Mnemosyne" (127) and who proposed its use to Francescho?
3. For what reason did the protagonist of Eyes have need of a new name?
4. Name two themes contained in one quote within the novel's Epigraph section.
5. With whom had Francescho spent her final moments and what is revealed to be the fate of this character?
6. 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.
7. How had Francescho first come to be acquainted with Barto and in what activity did they generally engage when they met thereafter?
8. What story does Francescho recount about "the infidel worker" (83) whose likeness she had eventually painted into Borse's fresco?
9. Describe the first meeting between Cosmo and Francescho.
10. What insights does Francescho provide into the subversive elements of her artwork?
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
What message does Smith send within the pages of How to Be Both concerning the effectiveness of different methods used to deal with grief?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the interplay between the resolution of How to Be Both and one of the novel's main messages. How does Smith make connections between these elements and how does their juxtaposition help get across one main message of the novel?
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