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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. wish for the narrator to blow up?

2. What happened to Catherine's best friend's husband?

3. Who is cured from gout in 1696 after praying to Catherine Tekakwitha?

4. What happens in the uncle's tent at the end of Chapter 49 of "A History of Them All"?

5. What swims away into the Atlantic, according to F.?

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

3. 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?

4. What does the narrator find in Edith's drawer as she and F. are shooting heroin?

5. What is Catherine's ailing uncle's final request of the women in the village?

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

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

8. Describe several instances of when Catherine healed or saved the sick or injured.

9. What does F. find in Mary Voolnd's private part?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the possibility that F. is an alter ego of the narrator. Explain how this would change the context of the novel.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Explain what the "telephone game" is and why is this knowledge significant to the narrator.

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