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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. Whom did Anatole leave the painting with in Chapter 12?

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

4. Who knocked at Anatole's door in Chapter 12?

5. When Pablito returned to the club in Spanish Harlem, where was he injured?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What had happened once Pablito returned in Anatole's story in Chapter 14?

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

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

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

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

8. Where did Anatole discover Sheri after leaving class in Chapter 11? What was his reaction?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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 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?

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