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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Humboldt think he and Charlie should do in light of the new US administration?
(a) Prepare to elect someone different in four years.
(b) Leave the country.
(c) Pay no more attention to politics.
(d) Consider forming a new political party.

2. Who does the Judge bring up as someone whose unique ideas made millions?
(a) Kathleen Tigler.
(b) Bill Gates.
(c) Tom Carvel.
(d) The Maharishi.

3. What is anthroposophy?
(a) The study of anthropods.
(b) An orthopedists's assistant.
(c) A procedure done with a needle and scope.
(d) The study of man's spiritual relationship to nature.

4. When Humboldt and Kathleen visit Charlie after Humboldt had just given a reading at Yale, what does Kathleen intimate to Charlie she plans to do?
(a) Get hold of Humboldt's money.
(b) Leave Humboldt.
(c) Stay with Humboldt, no matter what he does to her.
(d) Have Humboldt murdered.

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

6. Whose newspaper column does Charlie Citrine appear in according to Cantabile's early edition of the morning's paper?
(a) Avery Schriber's.
(b) Mike LaSalle's.
(c) Mike Schneiderman's.
(d) Mike Lucik's.

7. What does Cantabile tell Charlie he must do before getting together with Polly?
(a) Go through him first.
(b) Wear a proper tie and jacket.
(c) Not even think about it.
(d) Bring her roses.

8. Why does Cantabile take Charlie to the Playboy Club?
(a) To meet Mike Schneiderman.
(b) He needs to relax in the sauna.
(c) To have a few drinks together.
(d) To finally collect his money.

9. What article of writing does Charlie consider selling before realizing no one would be eager to buy it?
(a) "The Babylonian Talmud."
(b) "Mining Beryllium in Africa."
(c) "Great Bores of the Modern World."
(d) "A Sack of Exotic Burlap."

10. What does Charlie tell Renata he is considering selling due to its current high value?
(a) His Oriental rugs.
(b) His apartment.
(c) His autographed book by Humboldt.
(d) His destroyed Mercedes.

11. Why does Charlie spend several months in South America near the Orinoco River?
(a) He has gone to meet Demmie's father.
(b) He goes there on a long vacation.
(c) He is looking for Demmie Vonghel's body.
(d) He is researching a new play.

12. Which government official does Charlie spend five days with while writing an article for Life magazine?
(a) Senator Robert Kennedy.
(b) Mayor RIchard Daley.
(c) Senator Jacob Javits.
(d) Senator Eugene McCarthy.

13. What idea does Cantabile have that makes Charlie point his gun at him?
(a) To kidnap one of Charlie's kids.
(b) Offering Polly to Charlie along with himself.
(c) Putting money into illegal Swiss accounts.
(d) Putting a "hit" on Denise.

14. 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.

15. How much money does Charlie lose at the poker game, including what he loses to Rinaldo?
(a) One thousand dollars.
(b) Six hundred dollars.
(c) Four hundred fifty dollars.
(d) Five hundred dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease did Charlie suffer from as a boy?

2. What is the Senora's chief claim to fame founded upon?

3. Where does Humboldt refuse to go and lecture in 1952?

4. Who is Orlando Huggins?

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

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