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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. Whom does Catherine appear to after her death and several other times as well in Chapter 22 of "A Long Letter from F."?

2. With what do F. and Edith bathe?

3. What happens to Catherine at the end of Chapter 46 of "A History of Them All"?

4. What does the narrator do when Edith and F. are busy in Chapter 44?

5. In Chapter 50 of "A History of Them All", where does F. eventually visit the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does the narrator react to the appearance of F. in his dream?

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

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

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

10. 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.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain why the bath from the Argentine Waiter transcends the thoughts of Edith and F.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the intimacy of F. and Edith and the intimacy of the men and women of the tribe.

Essay Topic 3

Explain how the literal and physical state in which the narrator lives is like his own hell? What motifs recur to make this connection?

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