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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 illness led to Saul's death?
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Lung cancer.
(d) Appendicitis.

2. Who wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover?
(a) Anatole Broyard.
(b) Dylan Thomas.
(c) Anais Nin.
(d) D.H. Lawrence.

3. According to Anatole's writing, what national feelings followed World War II?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Pride.
(c) Optimism.
(d) Sorrow.

4. What did Anatole take with him from the empty apartment in Chapter 12?
(a) A necklace.
(b) A painting.
(c) His umbrella.
(d) Sheri's coat.

5. Who had given Anatole the painting in Chapter 12?
(a) Eleanora Derenkowsky.
(b) Saul Silverman.
(c) Sheri.
(d) Detective Scanlon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose apartment did Anatole stop by when no one was home in Chapter 12?

2. Who helped bring together the book and publication of Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir after Anatole Broyard's death?

3. After Pablito disappeared, his friends sought out the stranger. What did the friends do to him?

4. Where did Anatole move to immediately after leaving Sheri in Chapter 11?

5. When did Anatole attend classes in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who arrived at Anatole's door in Chapter 12? Why?

2. What conversation did Anatole have at the police station in Chapter 12?

3. Where did Anatole go after leaving Sheri in Chapter 11? How did he feel about the location?

4. What did the upper middle-class girls which Anatole knew grow up reading? How did this impact them romantically?

5. What had happened once Pablito returned in Anatole's story in Chapter 14?

6. What did Saul reveal to Anatole at Prospect Park? On what condition did he speak to him?

7. How were Anatole's and Sheri's experiences of sex described in Chapter 10?

8. What story did Anatole relate to Delmore Schwartz in Chapter 14?

9. What story did Delmore relate to Anatole in Chapter 16? What was Anatole's response?

10. How did Anatole relate the desires of women in the late 1940s? How did men differ?

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