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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare the living situations of the Iroquois?
(a) As nice as the streets of New York City.
(b) Packed like sardines.
(c) A movie theatre at night, stifling its sexuality.
(d) The beginning days of civilization.

2. What is the narrator suffering from at the beginning of the book?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Headaches.
(c) Heartache.
(d) Depression and constipation.

3. What do Edith and F. do in the game they play in Question 29?
(a) They whispered on each other's body.
(b) They slept together blindfolded.
(c) They sucked each other's fingers and placed them in each other's ears.
(d) They exchanged gum.

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

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

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

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

8. F. is accredited to having a similar aura with _____________.
(a) Mother nature.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Marquis de Sade.
(d) The Canadian A---- tribe's chief leader.

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

10. What does Catherine give to the person who enters her tent?
(a) A piece of food.
(b) A flower.
(c) A cross.
(d) A ring.

11. Where is the narrator living in this novel?
(a) A room.
(b) An apartment.
(c) A psychosexual hell.
(d) A barn.

12. What does the narrator light in Chapter 21 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) A cigar.
(b) Fireworks.
(c) A cigarette.
(d) A fire.

13. What covers the narrator's apartment in Chapter 24 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) Ash.
(b) Dust.
(c) Oil.
(d) Soap.

14. Who died in the asylum from syphilis?
(a) Catherine Tekakwitha.
(b) F.
(c) Edith.
(d) The narrator.

15. What does the narrator realize the purpose of the note from F. is in Chapter 30 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) To miss Edith.
(b) To make him angry.
(c) A ploy to get him out of the house.
(d) To miss F.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator recalls F. painting a Greek acropolis with ___________________.

2. What do F. and the narrator eat in Chapter 18 of "A History of Them All"?

3. What does the narrator do in Chapter 23 of "A History of Them All"?

4. What does F. give the narrator in Chapter 18 of "A History of Them All"?

5. Where do Edith and F. play the game F. tells the narrator about in Chapter 12 of "A History of Them All"?

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