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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. What term refers to the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods?
(a) Postmodern.
(b) Existentialist.
(c) Extremist.
(d) Avant-garde.

2. When was Meyer Shapiro's book entitled Vincent van Gogh published?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1950.

3. When was Erich Fromm born?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1900.

4. What was the name of Anatole Broyard's first wife?
(a) Sophia Diaz.
(b) Aida Sanchez.
(c) Collette Evans.
(d) Jennifer McMurphy.

5. For what publication was Anatole a literary critic?
(a) The Miami Herald.
(b) The L.A. Times.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Chicago Tribune.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Anatole Broyard's mother?

2. What was Anatole's college known as because many of its professors had fled from Europe to escape Hitler and Nazism?

3. What Spanish artist presented the argument that he was more appropriate for Sheri in Chapter 3?

4. What did Anatole blurt out before leaving his second psychoanalyst visit in Chapter 7?

5. On his third visit to the psychoanalyst in Chapter 7, Anatole offered that although he'd been transfigured by love, it hadn't lived up to _________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How did Anatole feel about Greenwich Village when he first settled in there? How did he describe it?

8. How was Sheri described in the narrative? What was her appearance like?

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

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

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