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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. When George finally confessed her transgression to her mother, she said she had been keeping the secret for what length of time?
2. To which character had George's mother compared the painting by Francesco, calling it "generous," "sardonic," and "friendly" (205)?
3. George's mother told George that the castle nearby had been the site of a mass shooting how many years before?
4. At the end of H's visit with George and Henry on the morning of New Year's Day, George is shocked to realize that she has taken what action three times?
5. In what city does George currently live with her father and her brother Henry?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did George's mother react to George's confession about Lisa?
2. What timeline does George provide on the first page of the section entitled Eyes and what is its significance?
3. What does George tell her father after he discovers her in the garden engaging in her daily ritual?
4. What is the significance of the record album entitled Tell Laura I Love Her?
5. Discuss an instance when Smith injects humor into a memory George has of her late mother.
6. What piece of information did George's mother forget during their time in Italy and why did this event upset George?
7. What does the shopping cart within the narrative represent in the scene at "the car park" (231)?
8. What is the significance of Saint Catherine within the narrative?
9. Describe the conversation George has with Mrs. Rock about her mother's criticism of a certain politician.
10. What had been George's family's New Year's Eve ritual and which members of the family had participated?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
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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