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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 F. admit to the narrator the night Edith dies in Chapter 5 of "A History of Them All"?

2. Who is the bully that kicks sand in F.'s face at the beach?

3. What happens to make Catherine flee to the forest in Chapter 16 of "A History of Them All"?

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

5. Who replaces the local priest in Chapter 35 of "A History of Them All"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator remember about Edith in Chapter 7 of "The History of Them All"?

2. Describe how F. and Edith die.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the telephone game.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the disruption that Catherine's conversion to Catholicism and the spilling of red wine bring among the Jesuits and members of the A---- tribe.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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

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