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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 14, Through p. 376.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does a movie company hire Tigler?
(a) To use his dude ranch as background scenery.
(b) To be the horse expert.
(c) To direct certain cowboy scenes.
(d) As an extra.

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) Have Humboldt murdered.
(b) Stay with Humboldt, no matter what he does to her.
(c) Leave Humboldt.
(d) Get hold of Humboldt's money.

5. What is the reason Magnasco does not want to call the police on Humboldt?
(a) He is afraid Humboldt will attack him further.
(b) He does not want revenge from Charlie Citrine.
(c) He does not want to get a bad name within the New York culture crowd.
(d) He intends to attack Humboldt himself when the time comes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arranges to meet with Charlie at the Art Institute?

2. What is Renata upset about missing so Charlie could go to Coney Island to get a worthless outline?

3. What does Charlie want to do when Scaccia demands money from him on behalf of Humboldt?

4. Why does Charlie spend several months in South America near the Orinoco River?

5. When Humboldt releases himself from Mt. Sinai and begins to sue people, why does he not sue Charlie right away?

(see the answer key)

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