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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 sort of seating is provided within the room at the museum where Francesco's painting is hung?
2. How does George respond to H's romantic gesture?
3. What is the title of the record George recalls once laughing about with her mother and father?
4. How many screens had George been viewing at once when her mother told her she was "a migrant of [her] own existence" (194)?
5. In what grade are the young women who habitually record sounds in the bathroom at George's school?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does George tell her father after he discovers her in the garden engaging in her daily ritual?
2. How did George's mother react to George's confession about Lisa?
3. Describe the conversation George has with Mrs. Rock about her mother's criticism of a certain politician.
4. What location in her bedroom does George take great pains to hide from her father and why?
5. What piece of information did George's mother forget during their time in Italy and why did this event upset George?
6. What kinds of conflicts have been revealed so far within the text? Give a brief example of at least two conflicts unfolding at the center of the text.
7. What clues led George to think that her mother had been put under surveillance prior to her death?
8. What does the damage in George's house symbolize?
9. Discuss a metaphor Smith uses to indicate George's concern that she may be unable to love.
10. Discuss an instance when Smith injects humor into a memory George has of her late mother.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sensory details are used frequently by Smith in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of How to Be Both. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Smith’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.
Essay Topic 2
What message does Smith send within the pages of How to Be Both concerning the effectiveness of different methods used to deal with grief?
Essay Topic 3
How are the topics of romantic relationships, love, and sex treated within the novel How to Be Both and how does their treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
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