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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In reality, what did Anatole and Sheri feel for each other?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Love.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Curiosity.

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

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

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

5. What caused Anatole's mother and Sheri to go flying back in the chair in Chapter 11?
(a) Sheri pulled the lever.
(b) A leg on the chair broke.
(c) Someone broke through the door.
(d) An earthquake.

6. What had Sheri turned on in the middle of the night in Chapter 10?
(a) The radio.
(b) The vacuum.
(c) The gas stove.
(d) The lights.

7. Who reported that Anatole stole a painting in Chapter 12?
(a) Sheri.
(b) Saul Silverman.
(c) Detective Scanlon.
(d) John Leonard.

8. What did Anatole do after Sheri went flailing in the chair in Chapter 11?
(a) Watched her squirm.
(b) Laughed.
(c) Yelled.
(d) Picked her up.

9. To Sheri, sex was an exploration of ____________.
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Anatomy.
(c) Self.
(d) Sin.

10. What illness led to Saul's death?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Lung cancer.
(c) Leukemia.
(d) Appendicitis.

11. Who wrote Tropic of Capricorn?
(a) Alexandra Broyard.
(b) Henry Miller.
(c) Caitlin Thomas.
(d) Anatole Broyard.

12. When was Ernest Hemingway born?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1899.

13. What was Maya Deren's birth name?
(a) Eleanora Derenkowsky.
(b) Dagmara Dominczyk.
(c) Eliza Orzeszkowa.
(d) Dorota Rabczewska.

14. What friend of Anatole's was described as a great talker in Chapter 13?
(a) Milton Klonsky.
(b) Detective Scanlon.
(c) Saul Silverman.
(d) Eleanora Derenkowsky.

15. Maya asked Anatole to assist Dylan Thomas by doing what in Chapter 15?
(a) Getting money from a bouncer.
(b) Sitting on his wife.
(c) Walking his dog.
(d) Fighting a man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was dancing alongside Maya Deren in Chapter 15?

2. When was Lady Chatterley's Lover published?

3. Anatole told Delmore and two other colleagues about a night he witnessed what in Spanish Harlem?

4. What did Anatole fear his father would see when Sheri went flailing in the chair in Chapter 11?

5. Where was Maya Deren born?

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