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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 not approve of from Anatole?

2. What was the name of Anatole Broyard's first wife?

3. When was Franz Kafka born?

4. Due to Sheri's medical condition, Anatole was often what in their lovemaking?

5. What did Anatole blurt out before leaving his second psychoanalyst visit in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How many sessions did Anatole have with a psychoanalyst in Chapter 7? What progress was made?

9. Whom did Anatole seek a recommendation from for a psychoanalyst in Chapter 7? Who was recommended to him?

10. How did the students at the New School respond to Meyer Schapiro in class? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the artist Nemiceio Zanarte and his relationship to Sheri and Anatole in the narrative. Why did Zanarte present a case for Anatole to give Sheri her freedom?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the art historian Meyer Shapiro and his interdisciplinary approach to the study of works of art. How did Anatole and the other students feel about Shapiro as a teacher?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the Freudian revisionist movement and the teachings of Karen Horney at the New School. What did Horney observe about neurotics and why?

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