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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. Anatole related that when Pablito, a ticket taker, would not allow a man in who hadn't paid, the man _________.

2. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of what genre?

3. Anatole told whom that he planned on keeping the painting because it was his in Chapter 12?

4. Tropic of Capricorn was banned in the United States until what year?

5. Who reported that Anatole stole a painting in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. What story did Anatole relate to Delmore Schwartz in Chapter 14?

2. Where did Anatole go after leaving Sheri in Chapter 11? How did he feel about the location?

3. What did Anatole question about Sheri's "message" in Chapter 10 when he found her in the middle of the night?

4. What was Delmore's response to Anatole's story in Chapter 14?

5. Where did Anatole move after leaving his parents' home in Chapter 12? How did he feel about the move?

6. How did Anatole relate the sexual morals of the late 1940s in Chapter 17?

7. What scene took place with Dylan Thomas' wife in Chapter 15?

8. How were Anatole's and Sheri's experiences of sex described in Chapter 10?

9. How did Anatole meet Delmore Schwartz? How did he describe him?

10. What did the upper middle-class girls which Anatole knew grow up reading? How did this impact them romantically?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the introduction of the G.I. Bill and the New School of Social Research. What was the school known for in the 1940s?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the setting of the memoir. What was the atmosphere in Greenwich Village like in 1946? How did Anatole feel arriving home from the war?

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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