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

2. What college does Charlie Citrine attend?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) University of Wisconsin.
(c) University of Iowa.
(d) Notre Dame.

3. Why does Humboldt sneak into Dr. Longstaff's private elevator and have a meeting with him?
(a) To get on his good side.
(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 have Ricketts fired so he can have a chair at Princeton.

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

5. How does Charlie Citrine make a fortune?
(a) He writes a film score.
(b) He writes a Broadway play.
(c) He wins the Nobel Prize.
(d) He writes a best-selling novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What college did Humboldt have a connection with to get Cintrine a job?

2. For how many years are Humboldt and Citrine estranged?

3. Charlie ruminates over Humboldt's obituary which appears in which newspaper?

4. What is the name of the man that Charlie gave a check to and then stopped payment on it?

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

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