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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 Catherine cry out as she is being massaged?

2. What does the narrator long to speak publicly against in Chapter 10 of "A History of Them All"?

3. Who falls in love with Catherine in Chapter 26 of "A History of Them All."

4. Why were the living situations of the Iroquois deemed immoral by some?

5. What does F. suggest to the narrator in Chapter 12 of "A History of Them All"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe how F. and Edith die.

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

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

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

6. How does the narrator feel about the group of men who raped Edith?

7. Describe the telephone game.

8. What happens when the narrator and F. drive to Ottawa?

9. What does the narrator say is proof that he and Edith loved each other in Chapter 25 of "The History of Them All"?

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

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

Explain how the literal and physical state in which the narrator lives is like his own hell? What motifs recur to make this connection?

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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