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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. In what year did World War II end?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1945.

2. How many sessions did Anatole have with the psychoanalyst in Chapter 7?
(a) 100.
(b) 25.
(c) 50.
(d) 11.

3. Where was Erich Fromm born?
(a) Italy.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

4. Books kept the lives of Anatole and his contemporaries from being totally overwhelmed by ___________.
(a) Sex.
(b) The government.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Rock and roll.

5. What was Anatole's college known as because many of its professors had fled from Europe to escape Hitler and Nazism?
(a) Institution of Transients.
(b) Refugee University.
(c) University in Exile.
(d) Misplaced University.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the forward of the book dated?

2. Where was Kafka born?

3. Where was Meyer Schapiro born?

4. What medical condition did Sheri tell Anatole she had in Chapter 6?

5. On one occasion, Sheri and Anatole were so stimulated by Schapiro's lecture on whom that they ran to the roof of the school and made love in the dusky sundown?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Anatole pay for his college tuition? How did he feel about attaining a degree?

2. How did Anatole describe 1946 in terms of people's relationship to literature?

3. Under whom did Anatole study Gestalt psychology and Freudian revisionism at the New School? What were these teachers like?

4. What break-through did Anatole experience while seeing a psychoanalyst in Chapter 7?

5. Who later presented the same argument as Dick Gilman in Chapter 3? What was Anatole's reaction?

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

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

8. Why did Anatole decide to enter psychoanalysis in Chapter 7?

9. How many sessions did Anatole have with a psychoanalyst in Chapter 7? What progress was made?

10. What did Dick Gilman present to Anatole and Sheri one night in Chapter 3? How was Dick described?

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