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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. Where do Edith and F. play the game F. tells the narrator about in Chapter 12 of "A History of Them All"?
2. What item does Catherine give the person who enters her tent?
3. What covers the narrator's apartment in Chapter 24 of "A History of Them All"?
4. What has happened to the narrator's bowels by Chapter 13 of "A History of Them All"?
5. What does F. begin to do as he and the narrator drive in Chapter 39 of "A History of Them All"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens at the French banquet that Catherine attends in Chapter 42 of "The History of Them All"?
2. What was the purpose of the note that F. left the narrator in Chapter 30 of "The History of Them All"?
3. What does the narrator describe that happened to Catherine in 1664?
4. What does the narrator begin to fear about what is happening to him in Chapter 14 of "A History of Them All" ?
5. What does the narrator burn himself with repeatedly in Chapter 24 of "A History of Them All"? Why is it significant?
6. What role does F. play in the love triangle of Edith, the narrator, and himself?
7. Describe how F. and Edith die.
8. The novel was written in the 1960s. How do the contents of the novel relate to that time?
9. What does the narrator think about to distract himself from the reading that depresses him?
10. How does the uncle feel about his tribe by the middle of the novel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the relationship of Catherine and her uncle contribute to the overall theme of sexuality of the novel Beautiful Losers?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the suffrage of constipation and depression the narrator is undergoing. How is this motif repeated throughout the novel?
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast the intimacy of F. and Edith and the intimacy of the men and women of the tribe.
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