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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Samantha characterize herself as a child?
(a) An outsider.
(b) A socialite.
(c) A social butterfly.
(d) A loner.

2. What caused Lillian to pass by the Lacuna gallery every day?
(a) The route to Grete and Kaja’s house.
(b) Samantha’s new school.
(c) Her new typing job.
(d) Her new restaurant job.

3. What effect would the image of Mommy is Sick have on the narrator?
(a) It would make her feel better when life was hard.
(b) It would make her want to make meaningful art.
(c) It would make her want to do good work.
(d) It would make her want to find people to help.

4. How does Lillian characterize Mr. Janovic?
(a) Kind and reassuring.
(b) A workhorse.
(c) Smart but cruel.
(d) Inattentive.

5. What choice did Lillian Preston give her daughter in regard to the photos in the Samantha series?
(a) To sell them or sequester them.
(b) To defend them or burn them.
(c) To exhibit them or destroy them.
(d) To get rich from them or exhibit them privately only.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Deborah get Lillian a typing job?

2. How does Samantha characterize her feelings on meeting her grandparents?

3. Where did Grete take Kaja and Samantha to get them out of the house while Lillian was feeling ill after the abortion?

4. What is the photo called Mommy is Sick a picture of?

5. How did Lillian’s parents finally get in touch with her and Samantha?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Patricia Stokes say about Lillian’s talent?

2. How is Samantha’s father characterized in the novel?

3. How does Goldberg characterize Kenny Lowell?

4. Who is the narrator of the introduction of Feast Your Eyes, and what is her relation to Lillian Preston?

5. How did Lillian reveal that she was pregnant, and how did she handle it?

6. Who is Sam Decker, and what was his relationship with Lillian Preston?

7. How does Samantha say Lillian set up her camera shots?

8. How does Lillian characterize her friendship with Nina?

9. What effect does the trip to Cleveland have on Samantha?

10. How did Lillian’s photography routine change once she and Samantha moved to Brooklyn?

(see the answer keys)

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