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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 Catherine's best friend when she whips her ?

2. How does Edith pleasure F. in "A Long Letter from F."?

3. What happens to Catherine at the end of Chapter 46 of "A History of Them All"?

4. What does F. say about men in A Long Letter from F.?

5. What does F. wake the narrator up for and drag him to in Chapter 47 of "A History of Them All"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What happens to Mary Voolnd?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the disruption that Catherine's conversion to Catholicism and the spilling of red wine bring among the Jesuits and members of the A---- tribe.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the possibility that F. is an alter ego of the narrator. Explain how this would change the context of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

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

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