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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 does Deborah characterize Lillian’s skills in the darkroom?

2. Who is in the first photo in the exhibition?

3. How does Samantha characterize herself as a child?

4. How does Lillian characterize Mr. Janovic?

5. What emotion did Lillian’s face show, when Ken asked her to move to Brooklyn with him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Lillian find attractive about her pills, and what effect did they have on her?

3. Where did Lillian work through her pregnancy and after?

4. How did Lillian document her pregnancy?

5. How does Lillian characterize her attempt to get an abortion?

6. How did Lillian become friends with Nina Pagano?

7. What were the advantages and disadvantages of the Ro-ro camera?

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

9. How does Samantha characterize Lillian’s living arrangement with Patricia Stokes?

10. How does Lillian characterize her friendship with Nina?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does motherhood change Lillian Preston? What does it give her, what does it take away? Does it change who she is as a person? Does it not change her?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate the ending of Feast Your Eyes. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?

Essay Topic 3

How are artists different from other people, in Feast Your Eyes? What makes ‘other people’ different from artists? What qualities do the people who befriend artists have that other people do not have?

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