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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Anatole Broyard's mother?
(a) Edna Miller.
(b) Betsy Williams.
(c) Josephine Mills.
(d) Wilma Henderson.

2. What did Sheri do while making love to Anatole in Chapter 8?
(a) Slapped him.
(b) Screamed.
(c) Cried.
(d) Bit him.

3. When was Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir published?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1990.

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

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

6. In what year did World War II end?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1943.

7. What did Anatole blurt out before leaving his second psychoanalyst visit in Chapter 7?
(a) He was disappointed in religion.
(b) He was disappointed in love.
(c) He was amazed by religion.
(d) He was amazed by love.

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

9. It unnerved Anatole that Sheri never wore ___________.
(a) Underwear.
(b) Hats.
(c) Makeup.
(d) Dresses.

10. For what publication was Anatole a literary critic?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The L.A. Times.
(c) The Miami Herald.
(d) The Chicago Tribune.

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

12. On one occasion, Sheri and Anatole were so stimulated by Schapiro's lecture on whom that they ran to the roof of the school and made love in the dusky sundown?
(a) Michelangelo.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Rembrandt.
(d) Picasso.

13. What is the official name of the G.I. Bill?
(a) The General's Infantry Bill.
(b) The General's Initiative.
(c) Servicemen's Readjustment Act.
(d) The Troops Pension Act.

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

15. Karen Horney was often classified as __________.
(a) Neo-Freudian.
(b) A conservative.
(c) A liberal.
(d) Neo-Jungian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Erich Fromm born?

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

3. What Spanish artist presented the argument that he was more appropriate for Sheri in Chapter 3?

4. What was the name of Anatole Broyard's father?

5. Anatole shocked the Spanish artist in Chapter 3 by responding to him in what way?

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