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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 wonder as he spends his time in his new location in Chapter 44?

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

3. What does F. comment on in Chapter 18 in regards to Catherine's death from "A Long Letter from F."?

4. Who makes a rosary in Catherine's honor?

5. What does the message say that F. finds in the woman who watches him write in "A Long Letter from F".?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the scene with the Danish vibrator.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the character F. and his relationship to the narrator. What motivates or drives F.?

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

Discuss the behavior of the narrator in F.'s tree house and compare it to his behavior in the apartment. How does the wilderness seem to tame the narrator?

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