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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 argues Catherine should be buried at her favorite prayer location by the river?

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

3. What does the narrator wonder as he spends his time in his new location in Chapter 44?

4. Who argues Catherine should be buried in the church?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. What does Catherine's mistress and priest try to convince her of when she gets upriver?

6. What happens to Mary Voolnd?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the self-mortification of Catherine and her best friend Tegaigenta.

Essay Topic 3

Explain why Cohen decides to use the female private part of Mary Voolnd as a means of communication between the living and the dead.

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