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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 the narrator admit to longing for in Chapter 48 of "A History of Them All"?

2. What is the prayer chanted for in Chapter 49 of "A History of Them All"?

3. What does F. wish for the narrator to blow up?

4. Whom does the narrator pray to in Chapter 52 of "A History of Them All"?

5. Who are the head priests at the Mission ?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene with the Danish vibrator.

2. 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.

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

4. Where does the narrator go when he leaves his apartment in Chapter 45 of "A History of Them All"? What does he think about there?

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

6. Where does Catherine travel to in "A Long Letter from F"?

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

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

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

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

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 scene where the narrator finds Edith's holy water and when the narrator finds out about the emotional intimacy Edith and F. share.

Essay Topic 3

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

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