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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 Anatole go to pick up from an empty apartment in Chapter 12?

2. After Pablito disappeared, his friends sought out the stranger. What did the friends do to him?

3. What did Anatole turn off after finding Sheri in the middle of the night in Chapter 10?

4. Virginia Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of what group?

5. When was Dylan Thomas born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Anatole stop to pick up at Sheri's apartment in Chapter 12? What did he take with him?

2. Where did Anatole discover Sheri in the middle of the night in Chapter 10?

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

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

5. Who arrived at Anatole's door in Chapter 12? Why?

6. How did Anatole describe his friend Saul Silverman in Chapter 13?

7. How did Anatole relate the desires of women in the late 1940s? How did men differ?

8. What was Anatole's reaction to Caitlin Thomas' advances in Chapter 15?

9. What conversation did Anatole have at the police station in Chapter 12?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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

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