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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was quoted as saying, "A good book review is an act of seduction, and when he [Broyard] did it there was no one better"?
2. What school did Anatole attend after returning from World War II?
3. Where was Meyer Schapiro born?
4. What overwhelmed the kitchen in the apartment Anatole took after the war?
5. When was Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir published?
Short Essay Questions
1. Sheri explained to Anatole that due to her medical condition she could not do what? How did he assist her?
2. What break-through did Anatole experience while seeing a psychoanalyst in Chapter 7?
3. Whom did Anatole seek a recommendation from for a psychoanalyst in Chapter 7? Who was recommended to him?
4. What did Sheri do during lovemaking with Anatole in Chapter 8? What was Anatole's reaction?
5. How was Sheri described in the narrative? What was her appearance like?
6. What did Anatole feel he inherited himself from the works of great literary authors?
7. What did Sheri reveal to Anatole about her medical condition in Chapter 5? What was his response?
8. What fields of specialization is the New School renown for?
9. What was speculated about Meyer Schapiro's feelings of modern art? How did he appear to his students?
10. What caused Karen Horney to become enraged during a lecture in Chapter 2? What did this make Anatole later realize?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Anatole's decision to seek psychoanalysis in the narrative. How common was psychoanalysis in New York during this period? To what school of thought did Schachtel ascribe?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the introduction of the G.I. Bill and the New School of Social Research. What was the school known for in the 1940s?
Essay Topic 3
How had Anatole's experiences in the military changed him? In what ways did Anatole "hide" his African American heritage? Why?
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