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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 swims away into the Atlantic, according to F.?

2. What type of English is the book given to the narrator by F. written in?

3. What happens in the uncle's tent at the end of Chapter 49 of "A History of Them All"?

4. Who argues Catherine should be buried in the church?

5. What happens to Catherine's best friend when she whips her ?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the scene with the Danish vibrator.

3. What is Catherine's uncle's request of Catherine before he dies?

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

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

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

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

8. What happens to Mary Voolnd?

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

10. What does the narrator find in Edith's drawer as she and F. are shooting heroin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the relationship of Catherine and her uncle contribute to the overall theme of sexuality of the novel Beautiful Losers?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the narrator and F.'s obsession with comic books and how this obsession shows their veneration of pop culture as a sacred entity.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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