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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5, Through p. 169.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Humboldt say about Citrine winning the Pulitzer Prize for his book?
(a) "If anyone deserves it, he does."
(b) "He is my friend."
(c) "It's a great honor."
(d) "The Pulitzer is for the birds."

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

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

4. Why does Humboldt sneak into Dr. Longstaff's private elevator and have a meeting with him?
(a) To have Ricketts fired so he can have a chair at Princeton.
(b) He wants to discuss the great poets and impress Longstaff.
(c) To ask the Belisha Foundation to endow a chair for him.
(d) To get on his good side.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason Magnasco does not want to call the police on Humboldt?

2. How does Humboldt diagnose himself as a manic depressive?

3. Who is President of the United States when Charlie and his then-wife, Denise, are invited to the White House?

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

5. Who does Charlie find at the Russian Baths and is happy that it is not George Siewell?

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