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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. With what do F. and Edith bathe?

2. What does Catherine's best friend say human tastes like?

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

4. What does F. tell the narrator at the end of Chapter 47 of "A History of Them All"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What happens to Mary Voolnd?

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

10. Describe the scene with the Danish vibrator.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

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