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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. Maya asked Anatole to assist Dylan Thomas by doing what in Chapter 15?
(a) Walking his dog.
(b) Getting money from a bouncer.
(c) Fighting a man.
(d) Sitting on his wife.

2. Anatole's mother slowed her speech when speaking with Sheri because she thought ______________.
(a) Sheri was hard of hearing.
(b) Sheri was foreign.
(c) Sheri couldn't read.
(d) Sheri wasn't listening.

3. What had Sheri turned on in the middle of the night in Chapter 10?
(a) The lights.
(b) The gas stove.
(c) The vacuum.
(d) The radio.

4. Who asked Anatole to come with him to the station in Chapter 12?
(a) Detective Scanlon.
(b) Captain Stevens.
(c) Detective Miller.
(d) Captain Montrose.

5. Anatole became acquainted with Delmore Schwartz when had accepted a piece Anatole had written for what publication?
(a) Partisan Magazine.
(b) National Geographic.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) Newsweek.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although Anatole aspired to be an intellectual, when he read a book, he made sure he kept an eye on __________.

2. Who began fighting and throwing things at the welcome home party for Maya Deren?

3. Whom did Anatole leave the painting with in Chapter 12?

4. Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned from being openly published in Great Britain until what year?

5. When was George Eliot born?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Anatole relate the sexual morals of the late 1940s in Chapter 17?

2. How were Anatole's and Sheri's experiences of sex described in Chapter 10?

3. Where did Anatole move after leaving his parents' home in Chapter 12? How did he feel about the move?

4. What did the upper middle-class girls which Anatole knew grow up reading? How did this impact them romantically?

5. Why did Anatole close his bookstore in Chapter 11? What did he go on to do?

6. What story did Anatole relate to Delmore Schwartz in Chapter 14?

7. What led to Sheri flying out of a chair in Chapter 11? What did Anatole do?

8. Where did Anatole discover Sheri after leaving class in Chapter 11? What was his reaction?

9. What did Saul reveal to Anatole at Prospect Park? On what condition did he speak to him?

10. What did Anatole not know about his friend Saul?

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