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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. Whom did Anatole leave the painting with in Chapter 12?
(a) Eleanora Derenkowsky.
(b) His father.
(c) Sheri.
(d) Detective Scanlon.

2. 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) Love.
(b) The raw data of reality.
(c) Religion.
(d) His true self.

3. Anatole wrote that in New York in the twenties, ethnic differences weren't ignored but were devoid of ______.
(a) Criticism.
(b) Analysis.
(c) Prejudice.
(d) Negativity.

4. When was Dylan Thomas born?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1912.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Virginia Woolf born?

3. When did Ernest Hemingway win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

4. When was Lady Chatterley's Lover published?

5. After how long since Saul told Anatole he was dying was he hospitalized and soon died?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Anatole question about Sheri's "message" in Chapter 10 when he found her in the middle of the night?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who arrived at Anatole's door in Chapter 12? Why?

9. What scene took place with Dylan Thomas' wife in Chapter 15?

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

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