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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. Books kept the lives of Anatole and his contemporaries from being totally overwhelmed by ___________.

2. It unnerved Anatole that Sheri never wore ___________.

3. Where was Friedrich Nietzsche born?

4. What is the official name of the G.I. Bill?

5. Where was Anatole Broyard born?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Anatole humiliated when Anais Nin offered him a wine bottle to open?

2. What caused Karen Horney to become enraged during a lecture in Chapter 2? What did this make Anatole later realize?

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

4. How did Anatole describe 1946 in terms of people's relationship to literature?

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

6. What put off Anatole about some of his customers at the bookstore?

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

8. Who later presented the same argument as Dick Gilman in Chapter 3? What was Anatole's reaction?

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

10. Under whom did Anatole study Gestalt psychology and Freudian revisionism at the New School? What were these teachers like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Anatole's impressions of the customers who frequented his bookstore. What did Anatole criticize about many customers? How was his appreciation for literature different?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the setting of the memoir. What was the atmosphere in Greenwich Village like in 1946? How did Anatole feel arriving home from the war?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Anatole's purchase of a bookstore in 1946. Where was Anatole's bookstore located? How much did he pay for it, and where did he get the money?

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