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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Edith and F. play the game F. tells the narrator about in Chapter 12 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) A closet.
(b) A hotel.
(c) A bathroom.
(d) A railroad station.

2. What item does Catherine give the person who enters her tent?
(a) Consummation of marriage.
(b) Love.
(c) A transference of religion.
(d) A token or appreciation.

3. What does the note the narrator finds in F.'s fireworks instruct him to do?
(a) Turn on the radio.
(b) Go eat a steak.
(c) Turn on the lights.
(d) Go take a shower.

4. What does F. admit about the near death experience in the car?
(a) It was sexually exciting.
(b) Edith was watching over them and protected them.
(c) He and Edith arranged it.
(d) He wanted to die.

5. What does the narrator say his profession is in Chapter 2 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) He is a student.
(b) He is a janitor.
(c) He is a folklorist and scholar of the Canadian A---- tribe.
(d) He is a scholar of science.

6. What happens to the room as Catherine disrupts the French banquet?
(a) Everyone yelled at her.
(b) No one noticed.
(c) They made her leave the banquet.
(d) Everyone fell silent.

7. What does F. admit to the narrator the night Edith dies in Chapter 5 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) Killing Edith.
(b) Wanting to marry Edith.
(c) Loving the narrator.
(d) Sleeping with Edith.

8. What does Catherine spill at the French banquet?
(a) White wine.
(b) Tomato sauce.
(c) Grape juice.
(d) Red wine.

9. What does the narrator remember about F. in Chapter 14 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) F.'s laugh.
(b) F.'s tirades.
(c) F.'s humor.
(d) F.'s body.

10. What does F. do with the narrator the night Edith dies?
(a) Kisses the narrator.
(b) Cooks for him
(c) Sits with him and comforts him.
(d) Gives him a massage.

11. Who is beaten and disowned by their family?
(a) Catherine's uncle.
(b) F.
(c) Catherine.
(d) The young man.

12. How does Edith die?
(a) She is crushed by the elevator shaft.
(b) She is shot.
(c) She shoots herself in the head.
(d) She dies of a heart attack.

13. The narrator recalls F. painting a Greek acropolis with ___________________.
(a) Red nail polish.
(b) Pink nail polish.
(c) Eye shadow.
(d) Watercolor paint.

14. In Chapter 13 of "A History of Them All," what has the narrator stopped doing since he read about the plague?
(a) Talking.
(b) Working and showering.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Eating.

15. Who is the bully that kicks sand in F.'s face at the beach?
(a) Axis Charles.
(b) Charles Axis.
(c) Catherine Tekakwitha.
(d) Edith.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what purpose is the plan F. uses to lose weight intended?

2. What does the narrator long to speak publicly against in Chapter 10 of "A History of Them All"?

3. What does the narrator say about F.'s personality in Chapter 14 of "A History of Them All"?

4. Who died in the asylum from syphilis?

5. Who is caught under the spell of F. in Chapter 9 of "A History of Them All"?

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