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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 is the narrator convinced the song he listens to in Chapter 30 of "A History of Them All" is about?
(a) Death.
(b) Love eternal.
(c) Sex with his tribe.
(d) An orgy between Gavis and his goddesses.

2. In Chapter 12 of "A History of Them All," what game does F. tell the narrator he and Edith play?
(a) The telephone game.
(b) The lust game.
(c) Monopoly.
(d) Hide and seek.

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

4. What does F. give the narrator in Chapter 18 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) A Bible.
(b) A picture.
(c) An English-Greek translation book.
(d) A letter.

5. 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) A ploy to get him out of the house.
(c) To make him angry.
(d) To miss F.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does F. do with the narrator the night Edith dies?

5. What does Catherine give to the person who enters her tent?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator begin to fear about what is happening to him in Chapter 14 of "A History of Them All" ?

2. What does the narrator think about to distract himself from the reading that depresses him?

3. What role does F. play in the love triangle of Edith, the narrator, and himself?

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

5. What was the purpose of the note that F. left the narrator in Chapter 30 of "The History of Them All"?

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

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

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

9. Describe how F. and Edith die.

10. What does the narrator say is proof that he and Edith loved each other in Chapter 25 of "The History of Them All"?

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