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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 think about to distract himself from his depressing reading in Chapter 12 of "A History of Them All"?

2. What is the condition the priest gives Catherine in Chapter 37 of "A History of Them All"?

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

4. What item does Catherine give the person who enters her tent?

5. What does the narrator remember about F. in Chapter 14 of "A History of Them All"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the narrator feel about the group of men who raped Edith?

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

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

6. Describe how F. and Edith die.

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

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

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

10. Who is Charles Axis?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Compare and contrast the guilt of Tegaigenta over her husband's death and the guilt that F. feels from immunizing the narrator from passion.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the behavior of the narrator in F.'s tree house and compare it to his behavior in the apartment. How does the wilderness seem to tame the narrator?

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