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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 had Sheri turned on in the middle of the night in Chapter 10?

2. When Anatole's friend Saul fell ill, he was working as a literary critic for which publication?

3. Although Anatole aspired to be an intellectual, when he read a book, he made sure he kept an eye on __________.

4. When was Ernest Hemingway born?

5. George Eliot was the pen name for whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Anatole not know about his friend Saul?

2. Why did Anatole close his bookstore in Chapter 11? What did he go on to do?

3. What story did Delmore relate to Anatole in Chapter 16? What was Anatole's response?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Anatole's feelings about education following the war. What drew him to the New School? How was his military service an asset to him following WWII?

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

Discuss the intimate aspects of Anatole and Sheri's relationship. How did Anatole define sexual intimacy for himself? How did Sheri's views of sexuality differ?

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