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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom did Anais Nin consider to be one of her disciples?
(a) Anatole Broyard.
(b) Sheri Donatti.
(c) Dick Gilman.
(d) Erich Fromm.

2. What was Meyer Schapiro's political association?
(a) Marxist.
(b) Communist.
(c) Whig.
(d) Torrey.

3. Where did the psychoanalyst who was recommended to Anatole in Chapter 7 teach?
(a) New York University.
(b) The White School.
(c) The New School of Social Research.
(d) Columbia University.

4. Books were the obsession of young men in Anatole's years much as __________ were to men of the sixties.
(a) Lava lamps.
(b) Rock albums.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Sexual encounters.

5. On his third visit to the psychoanalyst in Chapter 7, what did Anatole attempt to take back?
(a) His commment about being disappointed in love.
(b) His commment about being amazed by love.
(c) His commment about being amazed by religion.
(d) His commment about being disappointed in religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Anais Nin studied psychoanalysis from whom?

2. What kind of store did Anatole purchase in Chapter 4?

3. What did Meyer Shapiro talk more often to than his students?

4. What was Anatole unable to open in Chapter 5?

5. What did Anatole study in order to become closer to Sheri?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Anatole feel he inherited himself from the works of great literary authors?

2. How was Anatole humiliated when Anais Nin offered him a wine bottle to open?

3. How did the students at the New School respond to Meyer Schapiro in class? Why?

4. How did Anatole meet Anais Nin? How did he describe her?

5. What did Sheri reveal to Anatole about her medical condition in Chapter 5? What was his response?

6. What unsettled Anatole about Sheri when he first moved in? How did the couple get along?

7. How old was Anatole Broyard at the opening of the book? From where had he returned? How was the setting described?

8. What did Sheri do during lovemaking with Anatole in Chapter 8? What was Anatole's reaction?

9. What put off Anatole about some of his customers at the bookstore?

10. Whom did Anatole seek a recommendation from for a psychoanalyst in Chapter 7? Who was recommended to him?

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