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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. Who wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover?

2. When was Norman Mailer born?

3. After how long since Saul told Anatole he was dying was he hospitalized and soon died?

4. When was George Eliot born?

5. What did Anatole close as it reminded him too much of Sheri in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Anatole explain the undercurrent of his and Sheri's relationship in Chapter 10?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the events in Chapter 10 which led to Anatole's decision to leave Sheri. Why did Anatole perceive Sheri would have wanted to commit suicide? Why did he feel that leaving was the best thing?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the Freudian revisionist movement and the teachings of Karen Horney at the New School. What did Horney observe about neurotics and why?

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