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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Anais Nin describe Anatole Broyard in her diary?
(a) Fun and intelligent.
(b) Sneaky and mysterious.
(c) Crude and boisterous.
(d) Handsome and sensual.

2. When did Meyer Schapiro's family emigrate to the United States?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1911.

3. How late was Anatole to his second psychoanalyst visit in Chapter 7?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 20 minutes.
(c) 5 minutes.
(d) 1 hour.

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 _________.
(a) It's publicity.
(b) It's abilities.
(c) It's potential.
(d) It's promises.

5. When was Erich Fromm born?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1900.

6. Why was Anatole late to his second psychoanalyst visit in Chapter 7?
(a) He was making love to Sheri.
(b) He hurt himself.
(c) He forgot.
(d) He got lost in a good book.

7. What was Erich Fromm an opponent of, which he considered an apt description of the lives of most Americans?
(a) Corporate slavery.
(b) Daftness.
(c) Pointlessness.
(d) Complacency.

8. Not much progress was realized in his sessions with the psychoanalyst because Anatole could never _________.
(a) Let down his defenses.
(b) Tell the truth.
(c) Accept who he was.
(d) Listen to the psychoanalyst.

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

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

11. Where was Meyer Schapiro born?
(a) Mongolia.
(b) Poland.
(c) Lithuania.
(d) Russia.

12. What class did Meyer Schapiro teach at the New School?
(a) Geography.
(b) Math.
(c) Science.
(d) Art.

13. When was Friedrich Nietzsche born?
(a) 1839.
(b) 1844.
(c) 1836.
(d) 1837.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir published?

2. Karen Horney became enraged when a student in her class asked her about ___________.

3. How many sessions did Anatole have with the psychoanalyst in Chapter 7?

4. 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"?

5. What did Anatole study in order to become closer to Sheri?

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