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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. Whose apartment did Anatole stop by when no one was home in Chapter 12?
(a) Meyer's.
(b) Sheri's.
(c) Doug's.
(d) Milton's.
2. When did Ernest Hemingway win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1949.
3. When was Norman Mailer born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1909.
4. After hearing cute baby and childhood stories about Anatole, what did Sheri's face reflect in Chapter 11?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Joy.
(c) Love.
(d) Boredom.
5. When was Dylan Thomas born?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1912.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was Maya Deren's principle profession?
2. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of what genre?
3. What friend of Anatole's was described as a great talker in Chapter 13?
4. When Anatole's friend Saul fell ill, he was working as a literary critic for which publication?
5. According to Anatole's writing, what national feelings followed World War II?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Anatole's reaction to Caitlin Thomas' advances in Chapter 15?
2. What conversation did Anatole have at the police station in Chapter 12?
3. Where did Anatole go after leaving Sheri in Chapter 11? How did he feel about the location?
4. Where did Anatole encounter the writer Dylan Thomas and his wife in Chapter 15?
5. How did Anatole describe ethnic differences in New York in the 1920s? How did this relate to Saul Silverman?
6. How did Anatole meet Delmore Schwartz? How did he describe him?
7. What had happened once Pablito returned in Anatole's story in Chapter 14?
8. What did Anatole question about Sheri's "message" in Chapter 10 when he found her in the middle of the night?
9. What did Anatole not know about his friend Saul?
10. What was Delmore's response to Anatole's story in Chapter 14?
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