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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. When was Maya Deren born?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1914.

2. When Pablito returned to the club in Spanish Harlem, where was he injured?
(a) His arm.
(b) His foot.
(c) His head.
(d) His knee.

3. According to Anatole's writing, what national feelings followed World War II?
(a) Optimism.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Loneliness.
(d) Pride.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After hearing cute baby and childhood stories about Anatole, what did Sheri's face reflect in Chapter 11?

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 _____________.

3. When Anatole had asked Sheri what a painting meant to her after she finished it, she told him that he'd never be a man until he could live without ___________.

4. What friend asked Anatole to collaborate on a magazine piece on jazz music in Chapter 11?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How did Anatole explain the undercurrent of his and Sheri's relationship in Chapter 10?

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

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

10. What led to Sheri flying out of a chair in Chapter 11? What did Anatole do?

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