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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Dylan Thomas born?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1912.

2. When was Ernest Hemingway born?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1908.

3. What was Sheri doing when Anatole found her in the middle of the night in Chapter 10?
(a) Thinking.
(b) Praying.
(c) Trying to kill herself.
(d) Writing.

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

5. Who had given Anatole the painting in Chapter 12?
(a) Sheri.
(b) Eleanora Derenkowsky.
(c) Saul Silverman.
(d) Detective Scanlon.

6. In reality, what did Anatole and Sheri feel for each other?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Love.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Hatred.

7. Anatole told Delmore and two other colleagues about a night he witnessed what in Spanish Harlem?
(a) A car accident.
(b) A rape.
(c) A murder.
(d) An arson.

8. Who wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover?
(a) Dylan Thomas.
(b) Anatole Broyard.
(c) D.H. Lawrence.
(d) Anais Nin.

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

10. From where had Maya Deren just returned in Chapter 15?
(a) British Virgin Islands.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Jamaica.
(d) Cuba.

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

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

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

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

15. After Pablito disappeared, his friends sought out the stranger. What did the friends do to him?
(a) Murdered him.
(b) Made him leave town.
(c) Talked with him.
(d) Cut off his hand.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What caused Anatole's mother and Sheri to go flying back in the chair in Chapter 11?

3. 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 _____________.

4. Whose apartment did Anatole stop by when no one was home in Chapter 12?

5. Saul Silverman prefaced telling Anatole about his illness by making him agree to __________.

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