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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 the narrator describe about Catherine Tekakwitha in Chapter 16 of "A History of Them All"?
2. Why does the narrator nearly run the car off the road?
3. What is the narrator suffering from at the beginning of the book?
4. What does F. suggest to the narrator in Chapter 12 of "A History of Them All"?
5. What does the narrator begin to do incessantly in Chapter 25 of "A History of Them All"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does F. buy in Chapter 14 of "The History of Them All"?
2. The novel was written in the 1960s. How do the contents of the novel relate to that time?
3. What does the narrator say is proof that he and Edith loved each other in Chapter 25 of "The History of Them All"?
4. Explain how the Iroquois tribe lives and why it was deemed inappropriate by the French missionaries.
5. What has happened to the condition of the narrator by Chapter 25 in "The History of Them All"?
6. How is Chapter 10 in "The History of Them All" a symbol of how the narrator is becoming more like F.?
7. What does the narrator burn himself with repeatedly in Chapter 24 of "A History of Them All"? Why is it significant?
8. Describe the telephone game.
9. What does the narrator remember about Edith in Chapter 7 of "The History of Them All"?
10. Describe the world in which the narrator lives in the novel.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the possibility that F. is an alter ego of the narrator. Explain how this would change the context of the novel.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the beating of Catherine by her aunts and the beating of the young brave who was supposed to marry her. How are they similar, and how are they different?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the behavior of the narrator in F.'s tree house and compare it to his behavior in the apartment. How does the wilderness seem to tame the narrator?
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