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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say he wants to study in Chapter 3 of "A History of Them All"?

2. What does the new priest massage on Catherine's body?

3. Who is Catherine Tekakwitha?

4. What is the narrator suffering from at the beginning of the book?

5. For what purpose is the plan F. uses to lose weight intended?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the telephone game.

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

3. Describe how Catherine Tekakwitha desires to be baptized.

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

5. Explain how the Iroquois tribe lives and why it was deemed inappropriate by the French missionaries.

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

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

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

9. Who is Charles Axis?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happens when Edith is raped by a group of men? Why does the narrator justify her rape?

Essay Topic 2

Explain why Cohen decides to use the female private part of Mary Voolnd as a means of communication between the living and the dead.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the self-mortification of Catherine and her best friend Tegaigenta.

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