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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 is kept in the vile around the lady's neck who is saved from the brink of death by Catherine's crucifix?

2. What does the narrator wonder as he spends his time in his new location in Chapter 44?

3. Who are the head priests at the Mission ?

4. What swims away into the Atlantic, according to F.?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Where does F. drag the narrator to when he wakes him from his sleep in Chapter 47 of "The History of Them All"?

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

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

9. What happens to Mary Voolnd?

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

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Explain what the "telephone game" is and why is this knowledge significant to the narrator.

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