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

2. What has happened to the narrator's bowels by Chapter 13 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) He cannot stop going to the bathroom.
(b) He has not had a bowel movement in days.
(c) They have changed colors.
(d) They are bleeding.

3. What does the narrator long to speak publicly against in Chapter 10 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) Any repressive institution.
(b) The government.
(c) Religion.
(d) The Candadian A--- tribe.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator mention about Edith's assertion as she was being raped by a group of men?

2. What is the narrator convinced the song he listens to in Chapter 30 of "A History of Them All" is about?

3. To what does the narrator compare the living situations of the Iroquois?

4. What covers the narrator's apartment in Chapter 24 of "A History of Them All"?

5. What does F. begin to do as he and the narrator drive in Chapter 39 of "A History of Them All"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the world in which the narrator lives in the novel.

2. What happens when the narrator and F. drive to Ottawa?

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

4. What is significant about what F. gives to the narrator in Chapter 17 of "The History of Them All"?

5. What happens to the young brave who was to marry Catherine?

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

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

8. What does the narrator read about that depresses him so much?

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

10. How does the uncle feel about his tribe by the middle of the novel?

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