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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 romantic gesture does H make toward George for the first time on her third visit to George's house?
2. George had been shocked to learn that her mother had once been kissed by whom?
3. How does George respond to H's romantic gesture?
4. In what location does George generally engage in her daily ritual viewing of the pornographic video?
5. George's mother told George that Lisa's attention had turned from flattering to what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Give an example of a piece of dialogue in How to Be Both that reflects the theme of connection.
2. What piece of information did George's mother forget during their time in Italy and why did this event upset George?
3. What location in her bedroom does George take great pains to hide from her father and why?
4. What irony does George note about her father's profession?
5. Discuss an instance when Smith injects humor into a memory George has of her late mother.
6. For what reason is George unable to find out what songs her mother had danced to during her morning ritual?
7. What element of language does George come to see differently after her mother's death?
8. Discuss a metaphor Smith uses to indicate George's concern that she may be unable to love.
9. What clues led George to think that her mother had been put under surveillance prior to her death?
10. What timeline does George provide on the first page of the section entitled Eyes and what is its significance?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Look carefully at the passages of How to Be Both that describe the close relationship between decay and crystallization. What is Smith’s purpose for discussing at length the nature of this connection?
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