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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Saul Silverman's mother blame for his illness?
(a) Allergens.
(b) The water.
(c) Food poisoning.
(d) Stress.

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

3. When was Lady Chatterley's Lover published?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1938.

4. When Anatole had asked Sheri what a painting meant to her after she finished it, she told him that he'd never be a man until he could live without ___________.
(a) Regrets.
(b) Sin.
(c) Pride.
(d) Explanations.

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

6. What did Anatole turn off after finding Sheri in the middle of the night in Chapter 10?
(a) The vacuum.
(b) The lights.
(c) The gas stove.
(d) The radio.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Who knocked at Anatole's door in Chapter 12?
(a) His mother.
(b) Sheri.
(c) A police detective.
(d) Doug Hall.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned from being openly published in Great Britain until what year?

3. What was Sheri doing when Anatole found her in the middle of the night in Chapter 10?

4. Although Anatole admired Delmore's intellectualism and love of the literary, it was almost as though his head was so wrapped up in books that he was unable to accept _____________.

5. When was Virginia Woolf born?

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