Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Anatole Broyard
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 118 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Anatole Broyard
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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. In what year did Anatole Broyard complete his military service?

2. Why was Anatole late to his second psychoanalyst visit in Chapter 7?

3. How did Anais Nin describe Anatole Broyard in her diary?

4. Where was Erich Fromm born?

5. Books were the obsession of young men in Anatole's years much as __________ were to men of the sixties.

Short Essay Questions

1. Under whom did Anatole study Gestalt psychology and Freudian revisionism at the New School? What were these teachers like?

2. How did Anatole describe 1946 in terms of people's relationship to literature?

3. What fields of specialization is the New School renown for?

4. What break-through did Anatole experience while seeing a psychoanalyst in Chapter 7?

5. What unsettled Anatole about Sheri when he first moved in? How did the couple get along?

6. How did the students at the New School respond to Meyer Schapiro in class? Why?

7. What did Sheri do during lovemaking with Anatole in Chapter 8? What was Anatole's reaction?

8. How did Anatole feel going into a modern art class with Meyer Schapiro?

9. Why did Anatole decide to enter psychoanalysis in Chapter 7?

10. What did Anatole purchase in Chapter 4? How did he have money for the purchase?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Anatole's friend Dick Gilman. Why did Gilman feel that he was a better match for Sheri? How did Dick react to reading new authors?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the life, career, and relationships of Sheri Martinelli. By what other names was Sheri written in other works?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the intimate aspects of Anatole and Sheri's relationship. How did Anatole define sexual intimacy for himself? How did Sheri's views of sexuality differ?

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