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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 happens to F.'s accomplice while trying to escape the asylum?

2. What is the prayer chanted for in Chapter 49 of "A History of Them All"?

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

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

5. How does the narrator pray with in Chapter 52 of "A History of Them All"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator find in Edith's drawer as she and F. are shooting heroin?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the state of the narrator at the beginning of the novel to the end. Does he make any progression? If so, explain.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the self-mortification of Catherine and her best friend Tegaigenta.

Essay Topic 3

What happens when Edith is raped by a group of men? Why does the narrator justify her rape?

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