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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3, Through p. 106.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Cantabile take Charlie to the Playboy Club?
(a) To finally collect his money.
(b) He needs to relax in the sauna.
(c) To have a few drinks together.
(d) To meet Mike Schneiderman.

2. What information does Charlie want from Langobadi?
(a) To know how dangerous Cantabile is.
(b) How deep into the Mob he is.
(c) Who styles his hair.
(d) Where he gets his shirts.

3. How does Humboldt diagnose himself as a manic depressive?
(a) He reads Freud and psychiatric journals.
(b) A fortune-teller informs him of this.
(c) He undergoes hypnosis.
(d) A psychiatrist encourages him.

4. How much money does Charlie lose at the poker game, including what he loses to Rinaldo?
(a) Six hundred dollars.
(b) Four hundred fifty dollars.
(c) Five hundred dollars.
(d) One thousand dollars.

5. Why does someone who calls Charlie in the middle of the night say that Charlie owes him $450?
(a) He won it from Charlie in a poker game.
(b) It is the money Charlie still owes on a car he bought.
(c) He loaned Charlie money that he now wants back.
(d) Charlie never paid the man for a suit he bought.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Humboldt say his mother used to send him to Chicago?

4. Where does Humboldt end up dying?

5. Why does Charlie think Cantabile hopes to see George at the Baths?

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