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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. After hearing cute baby and childhood stories about Anatole, what did Sheri's face reflect in Chapter 11?

2. What did Anatole know at the end of Chapter 10?

3. What did Anatole fear his father would see when Sheri went flailing in the chair in Chapter 11?

4. Tropic of Capricorn was a sequel to what earlier work?

5. Who had given Anatole the painting in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Anatole explain the undercurrent of his and Sheri's relationship in Chapter 10?

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

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

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

6. Why did Anatole close his bookstore in Chapter 11? What did he go on to do?

7. What did Anatole not know about his friend Saul?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Anatole's decision to seek psychoanalysis in the narrative. How common was psychoanalysis in New York during this period? To what school of thought did Schachtel ascribe?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Describe the artist Sheri Donatti and her relationship with Anatole Broyard. How old was Sheri when they met? How did Anatole describe her appearance and personality?

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