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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. consider himself and the narrator to be in "A Long Letter from F."?

2. What disservice does F. say he did to the narrator in "A Long Letter from F.?"

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. What does Lamberville, the priest, try to convince the dying person to do in Chapter 45 of "A History of Them All"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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

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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