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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 Edith's problem in "A Long Letter from F."?

2. What does F. do to Edith to help bring her to an maximum pleasure in "A Long Letter from F."?

3. According to F., who is obsessed with whiteness?

4. Who does F.say he dedicates most of his life to in "A Long Letter from F."?

5. What is kept in the vile around the lady's neck who is saved from the brink of death by Catherine's crucifix?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does F. tell the narrator when he visits him in a dream in Chapter 50 of "The History of Them All"?

2. What is Catherine's uncle's request of Catherine before he dies?

3. How does the experience with the woman who pleasures the narrator at the protest end?

4. Describe what happens when the men and women gather in Chapter 49 of "The History of them All" and how others separate from the tribe view it.

5. What happens to Catherine when she takes her oath of chastity?

6. What happens to Mary Voolnd?

7. What does the Argentine waiter do with Edith and F. at the hotel in "A Long Letter from F"?

8. Where do Claude and Pierre think Catherine should be buried? Where is she buried?

9. What does F. fear he did to the narrator in "A Long Letter from F"?

10. What does the narrator do in Chapter 52 at the end of "The History of Them All"?

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 enumerate miracles that ensued among the sick or injured after Catherine's death.

Essay Topic 3

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

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