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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Dylan Thomas born?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1912.

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

3. What did Anatole not know about Saul's fighting during World War II?
(a) What Saul did.
(b) Why he fought.
(c) When he fought.
(d) On whose side he fought.

4. What was Sheri doing when Anatole found her in the middle of the night in Chapter 10?
(a) Writing.
(b) Praying.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Trying to kill herself.

5. What did Anatole do with Sheri after her surprise visit in Chapter 11?
(a) Went to dinner.
(b) Kicked her out.
(c) Took her to church.
(d) Went home with her.

6. When was Maya Deren born?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1917.

7. Anatole told whom that he planned on keeping the painting because it was his in Chapter 12?
(a) His father.
(b) Sheri.
(c) Detective Scanlon.
(d) His mother.

8. Tropic of Capricorn was banned in the United States until what year?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1972.

9. What did Anatole find Sheri doing with his mother in Chapter 11?
(a) Attending church.
(b) Shopping.
(c) Looking at photo albums.
(d) Playing bridge.

10. Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned from being openly published in Great Britain until what year?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1959.

11. When was George Eliot born?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1819.
(c) 1864.
(d) 1899.

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

13. Where did Saul tell Anatole he was dying?
(a) A church.
(b) His house.
(c) The hospital.
(d) Prospect Park.

14. Tropic of Capricorn was a sequel to what earlier work?
(a) Here on the Equator.
(b) Tropic of Cancer.
(c) Longitudinal Thinking.
(d) Change Your Latitude.

15. For Anatole, sex with Sheri never became what kind of experience?
(a) Alienating.
(b) Fearful.
(c) Strange.
(d) Intimate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Anatole find Sheri one night in Chapter 10?

2. How long had Anatole been with Sheri when he left her?

3. What did Saul Silverman's mother blame for his illness?

4. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of what genre?

5. Where did Anatole move to in Chapter 12?

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