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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 school did Anatole attend after returning from World War II?
(a) Yale University.
(b) The Old School for Social Reform.
(c) The New School for Social Research.
(d) Cambridge University.

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

3. How old was Anatole Broyard when he finished serving in World War II?
(a) 26.
(b) 28.
(c) 23.
(d) 29.

4. When was Friedrich Nietzsche born?
(a) 1839.
(b) 1836.
(c) 1837.
(d) 1844.

5. What U.S. President signed in the G.I. Bill?
(a) Harry S. Truman.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Short Answer Questions

1. Erich Fromm was associated with what school of thought?

2. Who visited Sheri and Anatole one night and explained that Anatole was completely wrong for Sheri and that he was the right man for her?

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

4. Anatole shocked the Spanish artist in Chapter 3 by responding to him in what way?

5. How many siblings did Anatole Broyard have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Anatole purchase in Chapter 4? How did he have money for the purchase?

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

5. How did Anatole feel going into a modern art class with Meyer Schapiro?

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

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

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

9. What explanation did Sheri offer for the state of Anatole's apartment? What did he discover about their living arrangement?

10. What was the New School of Social Research known as during the Post WWII era? Why?

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