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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 is the title of the record George recalls once laughing about with her mother and father?
2. In what grade are the young women who habitually record sounds in the bathroom at George's school?
3. To which character had George's mother compared the painting by Francesco, calling it "generous," "sardonic," and "friendly" (205)?
4. What position does Mrs. Rock hold within George's secondary school?
5. What kind of damage to her room does George keep a secret from her father?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the main method George's father uses to cope with the trauma of losing his wife?
2. What is the significance of Saint Catherine within the narrative?
3. What had been George's family's New Year's Eve ritual and which members of the family had participated?
4. 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.
5. What does the damage in George's house symbolize?
6. What element of language does George come to see differently after her mother's death?
7. Discuss a metaphor Smith uses to indicate George's concern that she may be unable to love.
8. In what ritual does George begin to engage while sitting in her garden each day?
9. What does the shopping cart within the narrative represent in the scene at "the car park" (231)?
10. What clues led George to think that her mother had been put under surveillance prior to her death?
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
Discuss Smith’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of How to Be Both.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the messages sent about the theme of appearance versus reality within Smith's novel How to Be Both.
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