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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 did Samantha solve the problems that came with her feet being stepped on?

2. What was the trauma to which Grete responded by making a 20-foot shroud?

3. Why did Grete ask Lillian to leave her house for her reaction to her 20-foot shroud?

4. How did Nina characterize Lillian’s work when she saw it?

5. Why did Nina and Lillian spend three days in jail?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did it come about that Lillian realized that she was sick?

2. What effect did jail have on Lillian?

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

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

5. How does Goldberg characterize Samantha’s arrival in junior high school?

6. How did Nina’s case fare at the Supreme Court?

7. How did the controversy about the Samantha series affect Samantha’s schooling?

8. How does Goldberg characterize the last portrait of Samantha?

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

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

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

What topics would you like to research further, after reading Feast Your Eyes. Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on Feast Your Eyes.

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