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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 pledge to F. in Chapter 50 of "A History of Them All"?

2. What does Edith do to calm the narrator in Chapter 44 of "A History of Them All"?

3. What happens to the narrator at this event that F. forces him to go to?

4. What do Edith and F. do in Chapter 44 of "A History of Them All" that the narrator does not do?

5. Where does the narrator leave to go to in Chapter 44 of "A History of Them All"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Mary Voolnd?

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

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

4. Where does Catherine travel to in "A Long Letter from F"?

5. Describe what happens when the men and women gather in Chapter 49 of "The History of them All" and how others separate from the tribe view it.

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

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

8. What is the narrator doing in the tree house in Chapter 48 of "The History of Them All"?

9. Describe the scene with the Danish vibrator.

10. What does F. tell the narrator when he visits him in a dream in Chapter 50 of "The History of Them All"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the guilt of Tegaigenta over her husband's death and the guilt that F. feels from immunizing the narrator from passion.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the suffrage of constipation and depression the narrator is undergoing. How is this motif repeated throughout the novel?

Essay Topic 3

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

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