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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say his profession is in Chapter 2 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) He is a student.
(b) He is a janitor.
(c) He is a scholar of science.
(d) He is a folklorist and scholar of the Canadian A---- tribe.

2. What does the narrator say about F.'s personality in Chapter 14 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) He is quick tempered.
(b) He is OCD.
(c) F.'s personality is taking over his own.
(d) He has the best personality.

3. What does Catherine cry out as she is being massaged?
(a) She is a child of the lord.
(b) She wants to be baptized.
(c) Ow!
(d) She wants to have children.

4. What does the narrator realize the purpose of the note from F. is in Chapter 30 of "A History of Them All"?
(a) To miss Edith.
(b) To make him angry.
(c) To miss F.
(d) A ploy to get him out of the house.

5. For what purpose is the plan F. uses to lose weight intended?
(a) Heavy people to lose weight.
(b) Skinny people to gain weight.
(c) Bulking up.
(d) Fit people to get fitter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who cannot find Catherine as she flees to the forest in Chapter 16 of "A History of Them All"?

2. To whom does the narrator turn for his salvation?

3. What does F. admit about the near death experience in the car?

4. What does F. admit to the narrator the night Edith dies in Chapter 5 of "A History of Them All"?

5. What does the narrator remember about F. in Chapter 14 of "A History of Them All"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the uncle feel about his tribe by the middle of the novel?

2. What does the narrator pray to god for in Chapter 13 of "The History of Them All"?

3. What does the narrator read about that depresses him so much?

4. How is the red wine spilling on the table cloth disruptive like Catherine's own presence?

5. What does the narrator describe that happened to Catherine in 1664?

6. Why does the narrator call the DJ on the radio in Chapter 30 of "The History of Them All"?

7. What does the narrator remember about Edith in Chapter 7 of "The History of Them All"?

8. What was the purpose of the note that F. left the narrator in Chapter 30 of "The History of Them All"?

9. The novel was written in the 1960s. How do the contents of the novel relate to that time?

10. Describe the telephone game.

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