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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 did Anatole know at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) Freud was right.
(b) Who he was.
(c) There was a God.
(d) It was time to leave Sheri.

2. How did Sheri usually sleep with Anatole?
(a) On top of him.
(b) Beside him.
(c) Beneath him.
(d) Not looking at him.

3. Although Anatole aspired to be an intellectual, when he read a book, he made sure he kept an eye on __________.
(a) The birds.
(b) The weather.
(c) The real world.
(d) His bag.

4. When did Ernest Hemingway win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1944.

5. When Anatole's friend Saul fell ill, he was working as a literary critic for which publication?
(a) Time Magazine.
(b) The New Leader.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) The New York Times.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where had Maya Deren just returned in Chapter 15?

2. When Pablito returned to the club in Spanish Harlem, where was he injured?

3. Maya asked Anatole to assist Dylan Thomas by doing what in Chapter 15?

4. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of what genre?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where did Anatole encounter the writer Dylan Thomas and his wife in Chapter 15?

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

5. What had happened once Pablito returned in Anatole's story in Chapter 14?

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

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

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

9. What story did Delmore relate to Anatole in Chapter 16? What was Anatole's response?

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

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