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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Anatole find Sheri one night in Chapter 10?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) In a doorway.
(c) Outside.
(d) In the bathroom.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did Anatole open before taking Sheri to bed in Chapter 10?
(a) The oven.
(b) Doors.
(c) A book.
(d) Windows.

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

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

13. What was Anatole's religion in childhood?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Mormonism.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Catholicism.

14. What friend asked Anatole to collaborate on a magazine piece on jazz music in Chapter 11?
(a) Meyer Schapiro.
(b) Erich Fromm.
(c) Milton Klonsky.
(d) John Leonard.

15. What was Maya Deren's principle profession?
(a) Novelist.
(b) Actress.
(c) Painter.
(d) Filmmaker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Maya Deren's birth name?

2. What did Saul think he had initially when he fell ill?

3. From where had Maya Deren just returned in Chapter 15?

4. What made Anatole grow faint in Chapter 10?

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

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