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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What U.S. President signed in the G.I. Bill?
(a) Harry S. Truman.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

2. What was the name of Anatole Broyard's father?
(a) Paul Anatole Broyard.
(b) Carl Anatole Broyard.
(c) Dick Anatole Broyard.
(d) Otto Anatole Broyard.

3. Who was quoted as saying, "A good book review is an act of seduction, and when he [Broyard] did it there was no one better"?
(a) Ernest Schachtel.
(b) Meyer Schapiro.
(c) John Leonard.
(d) Erich Fromm.

4. What was Anatole's college known as because many of its professors had fled from Europe to escape Hitler and Nazism?
(a) Institution of Transients.
(b) Refugee University.
(c) Misplaced University.
(d) University in Exile.

5. Anais Nin was briefly a patient of what famed psychoanalyst?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Alfred Binet.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Erich Fromm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Kafka born?

2. In what year did Anatole Broyard complete his military service?

3. Where was Anatole Broyard born?

4. With whom had Anais Nin once lived with in France?

5. To what neighborhood did Anatole Broyard move after he returned from the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Anatole feel about Greenwich Village when he first settled in there? How did he describe it?

2. Under what famed psychologist did Anatole study at the New School? How did students feel about this instructor?

3. Why did Anatole decide to enter psychoanalysis in Chapter 7?

4. What break-through did Anatole experience while seeing a psychoanalyst in Chapter 7?

5. What explanation did Sheri offer for the state of Anatole's apartment? What did he discover about their living arrangement?

6. How many sessions did Anatole have with a psychoanalyst in Chapter 7? What progress was made?

7. How old was Anatole Broyard at the opening of the book? From where had he returned? How was the setting described?

8. What did Sheri reveal to Anatole about her medical condition in Chapter 5? What was his response?

9. What did Anatole feel he inherited himself from the works of great literary authors?

10. What was speculated about Meyer Schapiro's feelings of modern art? How did he appear to his students?

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