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

3. According to F., who is obsessed with whiteness?

4. What does the narrator find of Edith's that surprises him in Chapter 44?

5. What does Catherine's uncle ask of the individuals he calls upon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Catherine's best friend at the village? From what does she suffer?

2. What happens to Mary Voolnd?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Describe the scene with the Danish vibrator.

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

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

Compare and contrast the enumerate miracles that ensued among the sick or injured after Catherine's death.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the narrator and F.'s obsession with comic books and how this obsession shows their veneration of pop culture as a sacred entity.

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