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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. When would Sam Decker close his café?

2. How does Samantha say Lillian repaired their relationship?

3. What did Lillian’s father tell her he had always wanted to do?

4. Why did Samantha’s grandparents refuse to take her to see Kaja?

5. What was an unintended effect of Nina’s publicity drawing attention to her case?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lillian characterize her experience in prison?

2. Why did Lillian’s parents always return to the same booth at the same restaurant while she was in treatment?

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

4. What was Samantha’s (Jane’s) second summer in Cleveland like?

5. How did Lillian and Samantha connect with Franny Panic separately?

6. How has Samantha’s friendship with Kaja changed in junior high school?

7. How did Lillian handle her interview with the MoMA curator?

8. How does Samantha characterize Lillian’s first one-woman show, and how was the show received?

9. How did Lillian respond to Samantha, when Samantha asked her to have another show of her work?

10. How did Samantha find out that her mother had been arrested?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the role of men in Feast Your Eyes? How are the presented? What values do they hold, in concert or in distinction to or in opposition to the values the main women characters hold? How do men and women work together in Feast Your Eyes? How are they opposed? How are any oppositions resolved?

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

Who is the audience for Feast Your Eyes? What is the ideal reader for Feast Your Eyes likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

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