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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. How many minutes at a time is George usually able to watch the pornographic video in her daily ritual?
2. What two terms had mysteriously flitted through George's head every time her mother had gotten out her phone during the trip to Italy?
3. George and H develop a studying technique that involves what form of literature?
4. What romantic gesture does H make toward George for the first time on her third visit to George's house?
5. George notes that the Italian town with the museum has what two qualities?
Short Essay Questions
1. What kinds of conflicts have been revealed so far within the text? Give a brief example of at least two conflicts unfolding at the center of the text.
2. What does the shopping cart within the narrative represent in the scene at "the car park" (231)?
3. What piece of information did George's mother forget during their time in Italy and why did this event upset George?
4. What location in her bedroom does George take great pains to hide from her father and why?
5. Give an example of a piece of dialogue in How to Be Both that reflects the theme of connection.
6. What does George tell her father after he discovers her in the garden engaging in her daily ritual?
7. What is the main method George's father uses to cope with the trauma of losing his wife?
8. What had been George's family's New Year's Eve ritual and which members of the family had participated?
9. How did George's mother react to George's confession about Lisa?
10. What is the significance of George's shift away from considering a particular element of language to be very important?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
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
Discuss Smith’s messages about guilt and responsibility within How to Be Both. Focus especially on elements such as George’s guilt about the secret action she had taken to separate her mother from her friend Lisa.
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