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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who hires the psychiatrist, specializing in sex, for Charlie to talk with?
(a) Denise.
(b) Demmie.
(c) Charlie.
(d) Humboldt.

2. Why does Charlie's friend tell him that he should not give the man demanding $450 the money?
(a) The suit Charlie bought from him was a knock-off.
(b) He cheated Charlie at poker.
(c) The man is a racketeer.
(d) Charlie paid too much for a car he bought fom him.

3. What kind of business does Frank Tigler own?
(a) A dude ranch.
(b) A casinio.
(c) An undertaking business.
(d) A racetrack.

4. After speaking with Judge Urbanovich in chambers, what does Charlie want to do about the case?
(a) Go to trial.
(b) Leave the country and not return.
(c) Settle.
(d) Call Cantabile and have Denise killed.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Citrine first get in touch with Humboldt?

4. According to Humboldt, who is America's great Manic Depressive?

5. Who became Humboldt's best friend after he felt Charlie deceived him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Charlie plays racquetball with Vito LangobardiIn, a big-time hoodlum. In what way is Charlie attached to Vito?

2. According to Humboldt, what is the only art intellectuals can be interested in?

3. Why does Charlie continue to have a relationship with Pierre Thaxter?

4. What is Humboldt's reaction when Charlie tells him that the Chair, Ricketts, cannot give Humboldt a Poetry Chair because of budgetary reasons?

5. Charlie Citrine, as an elderly man, looks for something along the curbs in Chicago. What does he search for and why?

6. Why does George's beryllium mining scheme not seem as far-fetched to Charlie now as it once did?

7. How does Denise keep up-to-date on world news to prepare for a cultural evening at the White House?

8. Charlie goes to the Russian Baths to give Cantabile his money. What is Cantabile's demeanor like when he gets out of his car to meet Charlie outside the Baths?

9. Humboldt cashes in Charlie's "blood-brother" check. How is this done at a very bad time in Charlie's life?

10. What does Charlie think Cantabile's rank and place in the organized crime world is?

(see the answer keys)

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