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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. tell the narrator at the end of Chapter 47 of "A History of Them All"?

2. What does F. find in the woman who watches him write "A Long Letter from F."?

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

4. Where are Edith, F., and the narrator lying at the beginning of Chapter 44 of "A History of Them All"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. What is Catherine's uncle's request of Catherine before he dies?

7. Describe the scene with the Danish vibrator.

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

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

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

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

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 3

Compare and contrast the guilt of Tegaigenta over her husband's death and the guilt that F. feels from immunizing the narrator from passion.

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