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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. Who helped bring together the book and publication of Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir after Anatole Broyard's death?
(a) D.H. Lawrence.
(b) Caitlin Thomas.
(c) Ernest Schachtel.
(d) Alexandra Broyard.

2. When was Ernest Hemingway born?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1908.

3. When was Virginia Woolf born?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1882.

4. What was Maya Deren's birth name?
(a) Dorota Rabczewska.
(b) Eliza Orzeszkowa.
(c) Dagmara Dominczyk.
(d) Eleanora Derenkowsky.

5. Although Anatole admired Delmore's intellectualism and love of the literary, it was almost as though his head was so wrapped up in books that he was unable to accept _____________.
(a) The raw data of reality.
(b) Religion.
(c) Love.
(d) His true self.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Anatole attend classes in Chapter 11?

2. What did Anatole go to pick up from an empty apartment in Chapter 12?

3. Who knocked at Anatole's door in Chapter 12?

4. What did Saul Silverman's mother blame for his illness?

5. Anatole told Delmore and two other colleagues about a night he witnessed what in Spanish Harlem?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Anatole describe ethnic differences in New York in the 1920s? How did this relate to Saul Silverman?

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

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

4. Where did Anatole discover Sheri in the middle of the night in Chapter 10?

5. What was Delmore's response to Anatole's story in Chapter 14?

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

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

8. Where did Anatole go after leaving Sheri in Chapter 11? How did he feel about the location?

9. How did Anatole meet Delmore Schwartz? How did he describe him?

10. What did Anatole stop to pick up at Sheri's apartment in Chapter 12? What did he take with him?

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