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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who helped bring together the book and publication of Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir after Anatole Broyard's death?
(a) Alexandra Broyard.
(b) Ernest Schachtel.
(c) D.H. Lawrence.
(d) Caitlin Thomas.

3. Whose apartment did Anatole stop by when no one was home in Chapter 12?
(a) Meyer's.
(b) Doug's.
(c) Milton's.
(d) Sheri's.

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

5. When did Ernest Hemingway win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1949.

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

7. How did Sheri usually sleep with Anatole?
(a) Not looking at him.
(b) On top of him.
(c) Beneath him.
(d) Beside him.

8. Where was Maya Deren born?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Lithuania.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

9. When was Virginia Woolf born?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1882.

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

11. What did Anatole take with him from the empty apartment in Chapter 12?
(a) Sheri's coat.
(b) A necklace.
(c) His umbrella.
(d) A painting.

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

13. Saul Silverman prefaced telling Anatole about his illness by making him agree to __________.
(a) A no-fussing pact.
(b) Swear on the bible.
(c) Take a solemn oath.
(d) A gentleman's agreement.

14. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of what genre?
(a) Action fiction.
(b) Creative nonfiction.
(c) Ironic fairytales.
(d) Fictitious nonfiction.

15. When was Norman Mailer born?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1909.

Short Answer Questions

1. Anatole's friend Saul was a romantic intellect because he didn't want to change people's politics, but he did want to change their _______________.

2. Anatole told whom that he planned on keeping the painting because it was his in Chapter 12?

3. Anatole's mother slowed her speech when speaking with Sheri because she thought ______________.

4. When Anatole's friend Saul fell ill, he was working as a literary critic for which publication?

5. After hearing cute baby and childhood stories about Anatole, what did Sheri's face reflect in Chapter 11?

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