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

2. What illness led to Saul's death?
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Appendicitis.
(c) Lung cancer.
(d) Malaria.

3. When did Anatole attend classes in Chapter 11?
(a) At night.
(b) All day.
(c) In the afternoons.
(d) In the mornings.

4. Who had given Anatole the painting in Chapter 12?
(a) Detective Scanlon.
(b) Sheri.
(c) Saul Silverman.
(d) Eleanora Derenkowsky.

5. Where did Anatole find Sheri one night in Chapter 10?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) In a doorway.
(c) In the bathroom.
(d) Outside.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Anatole's religion in childhood?

2. When was Virginia Woolf born?

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

4. George Eliot was the pen name for whom?

5. What was Maya Deren's birth name?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. When did Anatole Broyard die? Who assisted in the completion of the book?

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