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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 was Anatole's college known as because many of its professors had fled from Europe to escape Hitler and Nazism?
2. When was Erich Fromm born?
3. When was Anais Nin born?
4. What profession did Anatole Broyard's father hold?
5. Sheri sparked Anatole's interest in what subject, despite his feeling of being alienated by it?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the students at the New School respond to Meyer Schapiro in class? Why?
2. How was Sheri described in the narrative? What was her appearance like?
3. What did Dick Gilman present to Anatole and Sheri one night in Chapter 3? How was Dick described?
4. Under whom did Anatole study Gestalt psychology and Freudian revisionism at the New School? What were these teachers like?
5. Who later presented the same argument as Dick Gilman in Chapter 3? What was Anatole's reaction?
6. What unsettled Anatole about Sheri when he first moved in? How did the couple get along?
7. How did Anatole pay for his college tuition? How did he feel about attaining a degree?
8. How did Anatole describe 1946 in terms of people's relationship to literature?
9. What caused Karen Horney to become enraged during a lecture in Chapter 2? What did this make Anatole later realize?
10. How did Anatole feel about Greenwich Village when he first settled in there? How did he describe it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the artist Sheri Donatti and her relationship with Anatole Broyard. How old was Sheri when they met? How did Anatole describe her appearance and personality?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Describe the early childhood of Anatole Broyard and his family history. Where was Broyard born? When did his family move to Brooklyn and why? How did Anatole feel about Greenwich Village?
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