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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 Anatole's friend Saul fell ill, he was working as a literary critic for which publication?
2. Anatole related that when Pablito, a ticket taker, would not allow a man in who hadn't paid, the man _________.
3. What had Sheri turned on in the middle of the night in Chapter 10?
4. Tropic of Capricorn was banned in the United States until what year?
5. 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 _______________.
Short Essay Questions
1. What conversation did Anatole have at the police station in Chapter 12?
2. How did Anatole explain the undercurrent of his and Sheri's relationship in Chapter 10?
3. Where did Anatole discover Sheri in the middle of the night in Chapter 10?
4. What was Delmore's response to Anatole's story in Chapter 14?
5. What story did Anatole relate to Delmore Schwartz in Chapter 14?
6. How did Anatole describe ethnic differences in New York in the 1920s? How did this relate to Saul Silverman?
7. What did Anatole question about Sheri's "message" in Chapter 10 when he found her in the middle of the night?
8. How did Anatole meet Delmore Schwartz? How did he describe him?
9. What did the upper middle-class girls which Anatole knew grow up reading? How did this impact them romantically?
10. What did Saul reveal to Anatole at Prospect Park? On what condition did he speak to him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the meaning of the title of the book? What was Broyard's association with Franz Kafka?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the art historian Meyer Shapiro and his interdisciplinary approach to the study of works of art. How did Anatole and the other students feel about Shapiro as a teacher?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the artist Nemiceio Zanarte and his relationship to Sheri and Anatole in the narrative. Why did Zanarte present a case for Anatole to give Sheri her freedom?
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