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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. What did Sheri do while making love to Anatole in Chapter 8?

2. After learning of Sheri's medical condition, what did Anatole often do?

3. Friedrich Nietzsche commented that the best thoughts came about while doing what activity?

4. Erich Fromm was associated with what school of thought?

5. Anatole shocked the Spanish artist in Chapter 3 by responding to him in what way?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Anatole pay for his college tuition? How did he feel about attaining a degree?

2. What put off Anatole about some of his customers at the bookstore?

3. What fields of specialization is the New School renown for?

4. What did Anatole feel he inherited himself from the works of great literary authors?

5. How did Anatole meet Anais Nin? How did he describe her?

6. How did Anatole feel about Greenwich Village when he first settled in there? How did he describe it?

7. What was speculated about Meyer Schapiro's feelings of modern art? How did he appear to his students?

8. What unsettled Anatole about Sheri when he first moved in? How did the couple get along?

9. What did Dick Gilman present to Anatole and Sheri one night in Chapter 3? How was Dick described?

10. What led Anatole to suspect Dick Gilman had been reading Nietzsche in Chapter 3?

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

Describe Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Carl Jung and Otto Rank. How had Miller and Nin known one another? How did Sheri know Nin?

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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