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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 objects were always embedded in the stationery George's mother provided for the family's New Year's ritual?
2. What word had George's mother intended to write on the window above the politician's head as he sat eating a meal at a restaurant?
3. What was the difference in age between George's mother and father at the time of their wedding?
4. How old is Henry in the narrative present?
5. George's mother told George that Lisa's attention had turned from flattering to what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the damage in George's house symbolize?
2. Describe the conversation George has with Mrs. Rock about her mother's criticism of a certain politician.
3. What had been George's family's New Year's Eve ritual and which members of the family had participated?
4. What does the shopping cart within the narrative represent in the scene at "the car park" (231)?
5. What location in her bedroom does George take great pains to hide from her father and why?
6. What is the significance of Saint Catherine within the narrative?
7. For what reason is George unable to find out what songs her mother had danced to during her morning ritual?
8. What is the main method George's father uses to cope with the trauma of losing his wife?
9. What clues led George to think that her mother had been put under surveillance prior to her death?
10. What irony does George note about her father's profession?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Smith’s novel How to Be Both. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
Essay Topic 2
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 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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