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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. When did Ernest Hemingway win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

2. What did Saul think he had initially when he fell ill?

3. Who wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover?

4. In reality, what did Anatole and Sheri feel for each other?

5. What was Maya Deren's birth name?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Where did Anatole encounter the writer Dylan Thomas and his wife in Chapter 15?

5. What did Saul reveal to Anatole at Prospect Park? On what condition did he speak to him?

6. When did Anatole Broyard die? Who assisted in the completion of the book?

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

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

9. What led to Sheri flying out of a chair in Chapter 11? What did Anatole do?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Describe Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Carl Jung and Otto Rank. How had Miller and Nin known one another? How did Sheri know Nin?

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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