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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. After hearing cute baby and childhood stories about Anatole, what did Sheri's face reflect in Chapter 11?
(a) Joy.
(b) Love.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Boredom.

2. Who wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover?
(a) Anais Nin.
(b) Dylan Thomas.
(c) Anatole Broyard.
(d) D.H. Lawrence.

3. When was Maya Deren born?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1911.

4. After how long since Saul told Anatole he was dying was he hospitalized and soon died?
(a) Two months.
(b) A few days.
(c) Two years.
(d) Twelve hours.

5. Where did Anatole move to in Chapter 12?
(a) Jackson Street.
(b) King Street.
(c) Prince Street.
(d) Sultan Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had given Anatole the painting in Chapter 12?

2. What did Anatole turn off after finding Sheri in the middle of the night in Chapter 10?

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

4. What was Sheri doing when Anatole found her in the middle of the night in Chapter 10?

5. What did Anatole know at the end of Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What was Anatole's reaction to Caitlin Thomas' advances in Chapter 15?

9. How did Anatole relate the desires of women in the late 1940s? How did men differ?

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

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