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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 leased a room to Anatole Broyard after he returned from the war?
2. Anais Nin studied psychoanalysis from whom?
3. 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"?
4. What did Sheri do while making love to Anatole in Chapter 8?
5. When was Karen Horney born?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the apartment which Anatole rented from Sheri. What was Sheri's apartment like?
2. How did Anatole feel about Greenwich Village when he first settled in there? How did he describe it?
3. How was Sheri described in the narrative? What was her appearance like?
4. Whom did Anatole seek a recommendation from for a psychoanalyst in Chapter 7? Who was recommended to him?
5. What fields of specialization is the New School renown for?
6. What caused Karen Horney to become enraged during a lecture in Chapter 2? What did this make Anatole later realize?
7. What explanation did Sheri offer for the state of Anatole's apartment? What did he discover about their living arrangement?
8. What led Anatole to suspect Dick Gilman had been reading Nietzsche in Chapter 3?
9. Under whom did Anatole study Gestalt psychology and Freudian revisionism at the New School? What were these teachers like?
10. What was the New School of Social Research known as during the Post WWII era? Why?
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 Anatole's friend Dick Gilman. Why did Gilman feel that he was a better match for Sheri? How did Dick react to reading new authors?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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