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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. The narrator telling George's story states that at the time of the narrative's unfolding, "it's just past midnight on" (164) which holiday?
3. What romantic gesture does H make toward George for the first time on her third visit to George's house?
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. What is George's mother doing in the video from her childhood in which she appears with her own mother?
Short Essay Questions
1. What piece of information did George's mother forget during their time in Italy and why did this event upset George?
2. How did George's mother react to George's confession about Lisa?
3. What element of language does George come to see differently after her mother's death?
4. What is the significance of George's shift away from considering a particular element of language to be very important?
5. What is the main method George's father uses to cope with the trauma of losing his wife?
6. What does George tell her father after he discovers her in the garden engaging in her daily ritual?
7. Give an example of a piece of dialogue in How to Be Both that reflects the theme of connection.
8. What location in her bedroom does George take great pains to hide from her father and why?
9. What timeline does George provide on the first page of the section entitled Eyes and what is its significance?
10. Explain the revelation that is finally made about the source of George's incessant feelings of "guilt and fury" (210) that result in repetitive thoughts.
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
What is the function of H's character within the novel? Discuss the characterization methods used by Smith in depicting H and include in your discussion the reasons that Smith portrays H in these particular ways.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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