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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator admit to longing for in Chapter 48 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) A dead wife.
(b) A dog as a pet.
(c) A dead religious figure.
(d) A dead lover.

2. Which of the following is not mentioned as a part of the book given to the narrator by F. in Chapter 52 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) Dry cleaners.
(b) Post offices.
(c) Barber shops.
(d) Intimacy.

3. What is the prayer chanted for in Chapter 49 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) Healing.
(b) Religious acceptance.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Metamorphosis.

4. Who is Catherine's mistress?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Tegaigetnta.
(c) Edith.
(d) Anastesie.

5. What does the narrator look at in Chapter 52 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) The English-Greek phrasebook.
(b) A picture of Edith.
(c) His watch.
(d) The wall.

6. What does the woman who watches F. write "A Long Letter from F." invite F. to do?
(a) Massage her.
(b) Lick her toes.
(c) Sing to her.
(d) Kiss her.

7. What happens to the narrator at this event that F. forces him to go to?
(a) He rides a ferris wheel.
(b) A woman is extremely forward with him.
(c) He runs away.
(d) He kisses a man.

8. What do the priests and Catherine's mistress try to convince of Catherine in Chapter 3 of "A Long Letter from F."?
(a) To pray.
(b) To have children.
(c) To marry a man.
(d) To eat.

9. What does Lamberville, the priest, try to convince the dying person to do in Chapter 45 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) To take communion.
(b) To accept Jesus Christ.
(c) To eat one last meal.
(d) To repent.

10. What does the narrator wonder as he spends his time in his new location in Chapter 44?
(a) If he will ever talk to F. again.
(b) How he will manage without Edith alive.
(c) What is in the Top Ten lineup.
(d) How he wants to die himself to be with Edith and F.

11. What does Catherine cut herself with in the woods?
(a) Stones.
(b) Sticks.
(c) A knife.
(d) Twigs.

12. What is asked of Catherine in Chapter 45 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) To strip naked.
(b) To pray.
(c) To eat a steak.
(d) To be intimate with the narrator.

13. Who says they would rather have sex with a thorn than a hunter?
(a) Edith.
(b) Catherine.
(c) Catherine's mother.
(d) F.

14. Where are Edith, F., and the narrator lying at the beginning of Chapter 44 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) Under the stars.
(b) Under a tent.
(c) Underneath a sun lamp in their apartment.
(d) Under a tree.

15. What does F. say about women in A Long Letter from F.?
(a) They are good cooks.
(b) They smell good.
(c) They are nicer than men.
(d) They hiss at the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what do F. and Edith bathe?

2. In Chapter 50 of "A History of Them All", where does F. eventually visit the narrator?

3. What does Edith do to calm the narrator in Chapter 44 of "A History of Them All"?

4. Who is cured from gout in 1696 after praying to Catherine Tekakwitha?

5. What do Edith and F. do in Chapter 44 of "A History of Them All" that the narrator does not do?

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