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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 does Samantha say she looks like in Item #65, bath?

2. Where did Samantha stay while Lillian was in the hospital?

3. What did Kaja’s father tell Samantha about her mother’s work?

4. How does Grete characterize Lillian’s state of mind at the end of the summer?

5. How does Grete describe the pictures Lillian prepared to present at the end of the summer?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nina recall having alienated herself and made herself a spectacle among the artists in New York?

2. What effect did the court ruling have on Lillian and Samantha?

3. What story did Lillian’s father tell her on the way to chemo at the hospital that made a middle ground between them?

4. How did Samantha change herself in order to bear her hard feelings after the court found against her mother and Nina?

5. How has Samantha’s view of Mommy is Sick changed, now that she is an adult?

6. What was Lillian’s summer without Lillian like?

7. What realization did Samantha arrive at when she followed her boyfriend to the party at an art collector’s house?

8. How did Lillian repair her relationship with Samantha?

9. What is Samantha doing in the eight photographs known as The Samantha series?

10. How does Lillian characterize her experience in prison?

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

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 3

When is Feast Your Eyes most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

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