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

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

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

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

5. How long had Anatole been with Sheri when he left her?
(a) Three months.
(b) Two years.
(c) One year.
(d) Nine weeks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom did Anatole leave the painting with in Chapter 12?

3. Whose apartment did Anatole stop by when no one was home in Chapter 12?

4. Tropic of Capricorn was banned in the United States until what year?

5. When was Dylan Thomas born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What story did Anatole relate to Delmore Schwartz in Chapter 14?

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

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

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

8. Who arrived at Anatole's door in Chapter 12? Why?

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

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

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