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

2. Where does the narrator want Edith's lips to linger specifically?

3. What does F. go on a tirade about in Chapter 6 of "A History of Them All"?

4. To whom does the narrator turn for his salvation?

5. Where do Catherine Tekakwitha's family settle?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe how F. and Edith die.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What motivates the narrator to turn to Catherine Tekakwitha when he is in agony over the deaths of F. and Edith?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the suffrage of constipation and depression the narrator is undergoing. How is this motif repeated throughout the novel?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Explain why the bath from the Argentine Waiter transcends the thoughts of Edith and F.

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