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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 Spanish artist presented the argument that he was more appropriate for Sheri in Chapter 3?

2. What refers to a theory of mind and brain positing that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies?

3. When was Anatole Broyard born?

4. Why was Anatole late to his second psychoanalyst visit in Chapter 7?

5. What psychoanalyst was recommended to Anatole in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. Under what famed psychologist did Anatole study at the New School? How did students feel about this instructor?

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

3. What explanation did Sheri offer for the state of Anatole's apartment? What did he discover about their living arrangement?

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

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

6. Why did Anatole decide to enter psychoanalysis in Chapter 7?

7. How did Anatole describe 1946 in terms of people's relationship to literature?

8. What did Sheri do during lovemaking with Anatole in Chapter 8? What was Anatole's reaction?

9. How was Sheri described in the narrative? What was her appearance like?

10. Describe the apartment which Anatole rented from Sheri. What was Sheri's apartment like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the literary world in which Anatole was associated. What writers emerged from the New School during his time there? What authors were predominant in literary circles and why?

Essay Topic 2

How had Anatole's experiences in the military changed him? In what ways did Anatole "hide" his African American heritage? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Anatole's purchase of a bookstore in 1946. Where was Anatole's bookstore located? How much did he pay for it, and where did he get the money?

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