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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. Who says they would rather have sex with a thorn than a hunter?

2. What do the priests and Catherine's mistress try to convince of Catherine in Chapter 3 of "A Long Letter from F."?

3. What does F. say about women in A Long Letter from F.?

4. What does the narrator find of Edith's that surprises him in Chapter 44?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the narrator doing in the tree house in Chapter 48 of "The History of Them All"?

2. How does the narrator react to the appearance of F. in his dream?

3. Who is Mary Voolnd? What does she do with F.?

4. What is the first miraculous event to have occurred after Catherine's death?

5. Where does F. drag the narrator to when he wakes him from his sleep in Chapter 47 of "The History of Them All"?

6. What does F. say about men and women in the beginning of "A Long Letter from F"?

7. What happens to Catherine after her uncle makes one of his final requests before he dies?

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

9. 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.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how the literal and physical state in which the narrator lives is like his own hell? What motifs recur to make this connection?

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

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

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