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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What made Anatole grow faint in Chapter 10?
(a) Relief.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Anger.
(d) Fumes.

2. What did Anatole not know about Saul's fighting during World War II?
(a) On whose side he fought.
(b) Why he fought.
(c) When he fought.
(d) What Saul did.

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

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

5. What did Anatole know at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) Who he was.
(b) Freud was right.
(c) There was a God.
(d) It was time to leave Sheri.

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

7. What did Anatole fear his father would see when Sheri went flailing in the chair in Chapter 11?
(a) Her socks.
(b) That she wore a wig.
(c) Her jewelry.
(d) Her lack of underwear.

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

9. When did Anatole attend classes in Chapter 11?
(a) At night.
(b) All day.
(c) In the afternoons.
(d) In the mornings.

10. 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 _______________.
(a) Opinions.
(b) Religion.
(c) Sensibilities.
(d) Appearance.

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

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

13. What friend of Anatole's was described as a great talker in Chapter 13?
(a) Detective Scanlon.
(b) Eleanora Derenkowsky.
(c) Saul Silverman.
(d) Milton Klonsky.

14. Anatole wrote that in New York in the twenties, ethnic differences weren't ignored but were devoid of ______.
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Criticism.
(c) Analysis.
(d) Negativity.

15. Tropic of Capricorn was a sequel to what earlier work?
(a) Longitudinal Thinking.
(b) Change Your Latitude.
(c) Here on the Equator.
(d) Tropic of Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Anatole close as it reminded him too much of Sheri in Chapter 11?

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

3. What did Anatole find Sheri doing with his mother in Chapter 11?

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

5. Whom did Anatole leave the painting with in Chapter 12?

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