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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 the prayer chanted for in Chapter 49 of "A History of Them All"?

2. What does the woman who watches F. write "A Long Letter from F." invite F. to do?

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

4. Who says they would rather have sex with a thorn than a hunter?

5. Who interrupts Edith and F. from their intimacy in "A Long Letter from F."?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What happens to Mary Voolnd?

6. 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.

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

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

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

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 self-mortification of Catherine and her best friend Tegaigenta.

Essay Topic 2

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

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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