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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12, Through p. 342.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Desperate Ambrose?
(a) A little kid in the funnies.
(b) An old film star from the twentie's.
(c) A mafiosa friend of Cantabile's.
(d) A man wanted by the FBI.

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

4. Why does Charlie enter a men's room stall as Srole is telling him what he can do to protect his money?
(a) To get away from him.
(b) To make a phone call in private.
(c) To sit and cry.
(d) To urinate.

5. What does Gaylord Koffritz bore George's father, Myron, with in the Russian Baths?
(a) Stories of the old days.
(b) How he wore a hole in Renata's car.
(c) Sales pitches of cemeteries and mausoleums.
(d) The best way to shave without nicking one's self.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Charlie lose at the poker game, including what he loses to Rinaldo?

2. Who is Humboldt name after, according to his Uncle Waldemar?

3. How does Humboldt address Charlie in his posthumous letter?

4. Who tells Naomi that Charlie plans to go away with Renata?

5. According to Mickey, who owns the Baths?

(see the answer key)

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