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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Anatole purchase a store in Chapter 4?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1950.

2. Anatole shocked the Spanish artist in Chapter 3 by responding to him in what way?
(a) With slang terms.
(b) With silence.
(c) In sign language.
(d) In Spanish.

3. When was the G.I. Bill introduced?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1940.

4. How many siblings did Anatole Broyard have?
(a) None.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

5. Sheri sparked Anatole's interest in what subject, despite his feeling of being alienated by it?
(a) Electricity.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Modern art.
(d) Greek history.

6. What profession did Anatole Broyard's father hold?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) Fisherman.
(c) Banker.
(d) Salesman.

7. Erich Fromm was known to criticize his students for not accepting what aspect of freedom?
(a) Taxes.
(b) Bravery.
(c) Death.
(d) Anguish.

8. Karen Horney became enraged when a student in her class asked her about ___________.
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Penis envy.
(c) Pavlov's dogs.
(d) Oedipus complex.

9. For how much had Anatole bought out a junk dealer in Chapter 4?
(a) $300.
(b) $100.
(c) $200.
(d) $150.

10. Where was Friedrich Nietzsche born?
(a) Russia.
(b) Germany.
(c) Italy.
(d) England.

11. 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) John Leonard.
(b) Meyer Schapiro.
(c) Ernest Schachtel.
(d) Erich Fromm.

12. When was Franz Kafka born?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1877.

13. In his favorite authors, Anatole felt he had inherited a new set of ___________.
(a) Uncles.
(b) Friends.
(c) Fathers.
(d) Brothers.

14. Where was Kafka born?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Milan.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) Prague.

15. To what neighborhood did Anatole Broyard move after he returned from the war?
(a) Upper East Side.
(b) Greenwich Village.
(c) Bedford Stuyvesant.
(d) Park Slope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to Sheri's medical condition, Anatole was often what in their lovemaking?

2. Karen Horney taught her students that neurotics were healthier than "normal" people because they __________.

3. When was D.H. Lawrence born?

4. On his third visit to the psychoanalyst in Chapter 7, Anatole offered that although he'd been transfigured by love, it hadn't lived up to _________.

5. What medical condition did Sheri tell Anatole she had in Chapter 6?

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