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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What did Saul think he had initially when he fell ill?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Alzheimers.
(c) The flu.
(d) Appendicitis.

4. Who began fighting and throwing things at the welcome home party for Maya Deren?
(a) Alexandra Broyard.
(b) John Leonard.
(c) Meyer Schapiro.
(d) Caitlin Thomas.

5. After how long since Saul told Anatole he was dying was he hospitalized and soon died?
(a) Twelve hours.
(b) Two months.
(c) A few days.
(d) Two years.

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

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

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

9. When Anatole's friend Saul fell ill, he was working as a literary critic for which publication?
(a) The New Leader.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) Time Magazine.

10. In Chapter 16, Delmore asked Anatole to accompany him where to help him decide which new suit to buy?
(a) Brooks Brothers.
(b) Brandy Brothers.
(c) Bartlett Brothers.
(d) Bradley Brothers.

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

12. George Eliot was the pen name for whom?
(a) Alexandra Broyard.
(b) Mary Anne Evans.
(c) Caitlin Thomas.
(d) Anais Nin.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Anatole do with Sheri after her surprise visit in Chapter 11?

2. When was Tropic of Capricorn first published?

3. After Pablito disappeared, his friends sought out the stranger. What did the friends do to him?

4. When was Virginia Woolf born?

5. Maya asked Anatole to assist Dylan Thomas by doing what in Chapter 15?

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