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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. To what office has F. been elected?

2. What does Catherine Tekakwitha make at her family's new home?

3. What do Edith and F. do in the game they play in Question 29?

4. Who does the narrator relate his own mindset to in Chapter 35 of "A History of Them All"?

5. What plan does F. use to lose weight and gain muscle in Chapter 29 of "A History of Them All"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does F. buy in Chapter 14 of "The History of Them All"?

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

8. Describe how F. and Edith die.

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

10. What has happened to the condition of the narrator by Chapter 25 in "The History of Them All"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the narrator and F.'s obsession with comic books and how this obsession shows their veneration of pop culture as a sacred entity.

Essay Topic 2

Explain what the "telephone game" is and why is this knowledge significant to the narrator.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the scene where the narrator finds Edith's holy water and when the narrator finds out about the emotional intimacy Edith and F. share.

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