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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. With whom had Anais Nin once lived with in France?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Otto Rank.
(c) Erich Fromm.
(d) Henry Miller.

2. Anatole shocked the Spanish artist in Chapter 3 by responding to him in what way?
(a) In sign language.
(b) With slang terms.
(c) In Spanish.
(d) With silence.

3. What refers to a theory of mind and brain positing that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies?
(a) Psychological gestation.
(b) Basalt psychology.
(c) Gestalt psychology.
(d) Kafka psychology.

4. What psychoanalyst was recommended to Anatole in Chapter 7?
(a) Ernest Schachtel.
(b) John Leonard.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Erich Fromm.

5. Where was Anatole Broyard born?
(a) Nashville, Tennessee.
(b) New Orleans, Louisiana.
(c) Biloxi, Mississippi.
(d) Frankfort, Kentucky.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. After the Spanish artist departed in Chapter 3, an angered Anatole refused Sheri's advances for how long?

3. How many siblings did Anatole Broyard have?

4. Due to Sheri's medical condition, Anatole was often what in their lovemaking?

5. It unnerved Anatole that Sheri never wore ___________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What caused Karen Horney to become enraged during a lecture in Chapter 2? What did this make Anatole later realize?

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

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

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

5. Under what famed psychologist did Anatole study at the New School? How did students feel about this instructor?

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

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

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

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

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

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