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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 photo called Mommy is Sick a picture of?

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

3. Who did Lillian photograph once she stopped photographing outside?

4. What is the girl doing in the photo titled Batter?

5. About how many photographs did Lillian take every day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Lillian Preston’s bequest to her daughter?

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

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

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

5. How does Samantha characterize her reaction to her mother exhibiting photos that show her nude?

6. How does the novel characterize Lillian Preston’s relationship with her parents?

7. How did Lillian become friends with Nina Pagano?

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

9. What effect does the narrator say Lillian Preston’s photography had on her when she discovered it?

10. How did Lillian’s breakup with Ken affect Samantha?

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

Analyze the novel—which is presented as an exhibition catalog—as a capstone in the relationship between Lillian and Samantha. How does the catalog resolve tensions between them? What remains unresolved? What would it take to resolve what is left open?

Essay Topic 3

Identify the most important plot points in Feast Your Eyes. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

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