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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 became Humboldt's best friend after he felt Charlie deceived him?
(a) Magnasco.
(b) Simkin.
(c) Scaccia.
(d) Huggins.

2. 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.

3. Why is Huggins looking for Charlie?
(a) To arrest him.
(b) Tigler had him in his will.
(c) To give him a subpoena.
(d) Humboldt had left him something.

4. Where is Charlie's family originally from?
(a) London.
(b) Kiev.
(c) Germany.
(d) Poland.

5. What is the title of of Von Humboldt Fleisher's book of ballads?
(a) Timaeus.
(b) Ballads of Love.
(c) From Hagel to Marx.
(d) Harlequin Ballads.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the poker game at George's house organized around?

2. Who does Cantabile take Charlie to meet in the Hancock Building?

3. Which Presidential election outcome was a personal disaster to Humboldt?

4. What is Charlie's only real asset?

5. What happens to Charlie's Mercedes-Benz one night in Chicago?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Cantabile's attitude towards Charlie changed?

2. 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?

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

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

5. Why does Pierre Thaxter rush to get into Cantabile's car and forgo buying the fish knives he had set out to purchase?

6. How does Charlie come to be blamed for Humboldt's admittance to Bellevue?

7. Why does Charlie think of the Mozartian Italian Denise likes, "Tutto tutto gia si sa" (Everything, everything about me was known)?

8. What does Humboldt believe Kathleen's father did to her to keep her away from Humboldt?

9. Why does George dislike Dick Durnwald?

10. Which of Charlie's family members does he briefly compare Langobardi to?

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