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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3, Through p. 106.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Citrine first get in touch with Humboldt?
(a) He meets him in a bar.
(b) They meet on a Greyhound bus.
(c) He telephones him.
(d) He writes him a letter.

2. What is the name of the man that Charlie gave a check to and then stopped payment on it?
(a) Rinaldo Cantabile.
(b) George Swiebel.
(c) Bill Thompson.
(d) Morris Eller.

3. Who is the poker game at George's house organized around?
(a) Rinaldo and his cousin.
(b) An undertaker.
(c) Charlie.
(d) The tuxedo-renting Lithuanian.

4. Who does Charlie find at the Russian Baths and is happy that it is not George Siewell?
(a) Dr. Lutz.
(b) Menasha.
(c) George's father.
(d) Humboldt.

5. How does Humboldt diagnose himself as a manic depressive?
(a) A fortune-teller informs him of this.
(b) He undergoes hypnosis.
(c) He reads Freud and psychiatric journals.
(d) A psychiatrist encourages him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Cantabile take Charlie to the Playboy Club?

2. Why does someone who calls Charlie in the middle of the night say that Charlie owes him $450?

3. What does Cantabile ultimately do with most of the money Charlie gives him?

4. Where does Cantabile want Charlie to go with him once they meet in the street outside the Baths?

5. Where is Charlie's family originally from?

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