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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Anatole fear his father would see when Sheri went flailing in the chair in Chapter 11?
(a) That she wore a wig.
(b) Her socks.
(c) Her jewelry.
(d) Her lack of underwear.

2. What was Maya Deren's principle profession?
(a) Actress.
(b) Novelist.
(c) Filmmaker.
(d) Painter.

3. Who wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover?
(a) D.H. Lawrence.
(b) Anais Nin.
(c) Anatole Broyard.
(d) Dylan Thomas.

4. When did Anatole attend classes in Chapter 11?
(a) All day.
(b) At night.
(c) In the afternoons.
(d) In the mornings.

5. Anatole told Delmore and two other colleagues about a night he witnessed what in Spanish Harlem?
(a) A murder.
(b) A rape.
(c) A car accident.
(d) An arson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Anatole open before taking Sheri to bed in Chapter 10?

3. What did Anatole not know about Saul's fighting during World War II?

4. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of what genre?

5. What hot spot of Spanish Harlem did Delmore and friends head to in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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