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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 15, Through p. 401.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Humboldt want to play the role of Zane Bigoulis?
(a) Elias Kazan.
(b) Dick Van Dyke.
(c) Gene Wilder.
(d) Zero Mostel.

2. Who is Harold Flonzaley?
(a) Denise's new boyfriend.
(b) The judge in the divorce case.
(c) Renata's undertaker suitor.
(d) Denise's lawyer.

3. What idea does Cantabile have that makes Charlie point his gun at him?
(a) Offering Polly to Charlie along with himself.
(b) To kidnap one of Charlie's kids.
(c) Putting a "hit" on Denise.
(d) Putting money into illegal Swiss accounts.

4. What is Humboldt's gift?
(a) A pawn check for Oriental rugs.
(b) A treatment for a screenplay.
(c) An Oldsmobile.
(d) A love letter from Kathleen.

5. What ultimately happens to Humboldt's chair position at Princeton?
(a) He rises to President.
(b) The letter from Longstaff is a fake and there is no money.
(c) He is cut out of the budget.
(d) Longstaff asks Princeton to remove him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Huggins looking for Charlie?

2. Where does Humboldt refuse to go and lecture in 1952?

3. What does Gaylord Koffritz bore George's father, Myron, with in the Russian Baths?

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?

5. What is the name of the private eye Humboldt hired?

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