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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 made Anatole grow faint in Chapter 10?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Fumes.
(c) Anger.
(d) Relief.

2. Whom did Anatole leave the painting with in Chapter 12?
(a) Eleanora Derenkowsky.
(b) Detective Scanlon.
(c) His father.
(d) Sheri.

3. When was Lady Chatterley's Lover published?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1914.

4. What did Anatole find Sheri doing with his mother in Chapter 11?
(a) Attending church.
(b) Shopping.
(c) Playing bridge.
(d) Looking at photo albums.

5. In reality, what did Anatole and Sheri feel for each other?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Love.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Hatred.

Short Answer Questions

1. Anatole told Delmore and two other colleagues about a night he witnessed what in Spanish Harlem?

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

3. When Anatole's friend Saul fell ill, he was working as a literary critic for which publication?

4. 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 _____________.

5. When did Ernest Hemingway win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Anatole describe his friend Saul Silverman in Chapter 13?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What was Anatole's reaction to Caitlin Thomas' advances in Chapter 15?

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

(see the answer keys)

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