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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What hot spot of Spanish Harlem did Delmore and friends head to in Chapter 14?
(a) The Park Plaza.
(b) Little Havana.
(c) Rico's taco's.
(d) The library.

2. What did Anatole go to pick up from an empty apartment in Chapter 12?
(a) Clothes and books.
(b) A lamp.
(c) Dishes and silverware.
(d) Furniture.

3. Who asked Anatole to come with him to the station in Chapter 12?
(a) Detective Scanlon.
(b) Detective Miller.
(c) Captain Stevens.
(d) Captain Montrose.

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

5. Anatole became acquainted with Delmore Schwartz when had accepted a piece Anatole had written for what publication?
(a) Newsweek.
(b) Partisan Magazine.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) National Geographic.

6. What did Anatole close as it reminded him too much of Sheri in Chapter 11?
(a) His bakery.
(b) His heart.
(c) His bookstore.
(d) His bank account.

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

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

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

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

11. When Pablito returned to the club in Spanish Harlem, where was he injured?
(a) His foot.
(b) His arm.
(c) His knee.
(d) His head.

12. Virginia Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of what group?
(a) The Royal Readers.
(b) Friends of the Queen.
(c) The Order of Wankers.
(d) The Bloomsbury Group.

13. Anatole thought that Sheri was weird, and she felt that he was ______________.
(a) Cocky.
(b) Ignorant.
(c) Righteous.
(d) Ordinary.

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

15. Anatole related that when Pablito, a ticket taker, would not allow a man in who hadn't paid, the man _________.
(a) Spit on him.
(b) Cried.
(c) Pulled a switchblade on him.
(d) Argued with him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote Tropic of Capricorn?

3. What was Anatole's religion in childhood?

4. Tropic of Capricorn was banned in the United States until what year?

5. What did Anatole not know about Saul's fighting during World War II?

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