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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had given Anatole the painting in Chapter 12?
(a) Eleanora Derenkowsky.
(b) Saul Silverman.
(c) Sheri.
(d) Detective Scanlon.

2. Anatole thought that Sheri was weird, and she felt that he was ______________.
(a) Ordinary.
(b) Ignorant.
(c) Righteous.
(d) Cocky.

3. After hearing cute baby and childhood stories about Anatole, what did Sheri's face reflect in Chapter 11?
(a) Joy.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Love.

4. For Anatole, sex with Sheri never became what kind of experience?
(a) Strange.
(b) Fearful.
(c) Intimate.
(d) Alienating.

5. Saul Silverman prefaced telling Anatole about his illness by making him agree to __________.
(a) Take a solemn oath.
(b) A no-fussing pact.
(c) A gentleman's agreement.
(d) Swear on the bible.

6. What did Anatole close as it reminded him too much of Sheri in Chapter 11?
(a) His bank account.
(b) His heart.
(c) His bookstore.
(d) His bakery.

7. Whose apartment did Anatole stop by when no one was home in Chapter 12?
(a) Milton's.
(b) Sheri's.
(c) Meyer's.
(d) Doug's.

8. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of what genre?
(a) Fictitious nonfiction.
(b) Ironic fairytales.
(c) Action fiction.
(d) Creative nonfiction.

9. When was Dylan Thomas born?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1909.

10. When was Maya Deren born?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1914.

11. When Pablito returned to the club in Spanish Harlem, where was he injured?
(a) His foot.
(b) His knee.
(c) His arm.
(d) His head.

12. What did Anatole not know about Saul's fighting during World War II?
(a) Why he fought.
(b) On whose side he fought.
(c) What Saul did.
(d) When he fought.

13. Who reported that Anatole stole a painting in Chapter 12?
(a) Saul Silverman.
(b) Detective Scanlon.
(c) John Leonard.
(d) Sheri.

14. When did Ernest Hemingway win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1944.

15. Anatole's friend Saul was a romantic intellect because he didn't want to change people's politics, but he did want to change their _______________.
(a) Religion.
(b) Appearance.
(c) Sensibilities.
(d) Opinions.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Norman Mailer born?

2. Where did Anatole move to immediately after leaving Sheri in Chapter 11?

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

4. Anatole wrote that in New York in the twenties, ethnic differences weren't ignored but were devoid of ______.

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

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