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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 do the priests and Catherine's mistress try to convince of Catherine in Chapter 3 of "A Long Letter from F."?

2. Who plans to leave the asylum with F.?

3. Who makes a rosary in Catherine's honor?

4. What swims away into the Atlantic, according to F.?

5. What does F. tell the narrator at the end of Chapter 47 of "A History of Them All"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does the narrator react to the appearance of F. in his dream?

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

Explain why the bath from the Argentine Waiter transcends the thoughts of Edith and F.

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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