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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 had Sheri turned on in the middle of the night in Chapter 10?
(a) The lights.
(b) The vacuum.
(c) The gas stove.
(d) The radio.

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

3. Where did Saul tell Anatole he was dying?
(a) A church.
(b) His house.
(c) Prospect Park.
(d) The hospital.

4. In Chapter 16, Delmore asked Anatole to accompany him where to help him decide which new suit to buy?
(a) Brandy Brothers.
(b) Bradley Brothers.
(c) Bartlett Brothers.
(d) Brooks Brothers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What made Anatole grow faint in Chapter 10?

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

4. What did Anatole do after Sheri went flailing in the chair in Chapter 11?

5. Where did Anatole move to in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What conversation did Anatole have at the police station in Chapter 12?

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

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

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

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

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

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