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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the priest tell Catherine in Chapter 37 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) He loves her.
(b) She needs to bear his child.
(c) Their way of life is coming to an end.
(d) He is gay himself.

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

3. Who considered the living situations of the Iroquois immoral?
(a) The church.
(b) The government.
(c) French missionaries.
(d) Baptist missionaries.

4. Who had their hearts eaten by the Canadian tribes' chiefs?
(a) Catherine Tekakwitha.
(b) Catherine's mother.
(c) F.
(d) French priests.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator read about in regard to Catherine Tekakwitha in Chapter 12 of "A History of Them All"?

2. What happens to the room as Catherine disrupts the French banquet?

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

4. To what office has F. been elected?

5. What does Catherine spill at the French banquet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the red wine spilling on the table cloth disruptive like Catherine's own presence?

2. What does the narrator burn himself with repeatedly in Chapter 24 of "A History of Them All"? Why is it significant?

3. What does the narrator pray to god for in Chapter 13 of "The History of Them All"?

4. Who is Charles Axis?

5. The novel was written in the 1960s. How do the contents of the novel relate to that time?

6. What happened to the narrator at school when he was a child?

7. What does the narrator remember about Edith in Chapter 7 of "The History of Them All"?

8. Why does the narrator call the DJ on the radio in Chapter 30 of "The History of Them All"?

9. How is Chapter 10 in "The History of Them All" a symbol of how the narrator is becoming more like F.?

10. Describe how Catherine Tekakwitha desires to be baptized.

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