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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 open before taking Sheri to bed in Chapter 10?
(a) Doors.
(b) Windows.
(c) A book.
(d) The oven.

2. Who reported that Anatole stole a painting in Chapter 12?
(a) Saul Silverman.
(b) John Leonard.
(c) Sheri.
(d) Detective Scanlon.

3. What did Anatole take with him from the empty apartment in Chapter 12?
(a) A painting.
(b) His umbrella.
(c) Sheri's coat.
(d) A necklace.

4. For Anatole, sex with Sheri never became what kind of experience?
(a) Alienating.
(b) Strange.
(c) Fearful.
(d) Intimate.

5. Whose apartment did Anatole stop by when no one was home in Chapter 12?
(a) Sheri's.
(b) Milton's.
(c) Meyer's.
(d) Doug's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Saul think he had initially when he fell ill?

2. Who was dancing alongside Maya Deren in Chapter 15?

3. Anatole's mother slowed her speech when speaking with Sheri because she thought ______________.

4. Anatole told whom that he planned on keeping the painting because it was his in Chapter 12?

5. George Eliot was the pen name for whom?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Where did Anatole discover Sheri after leaving class in Chapter 11? What was his reaction?

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