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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. Who gave Charlie an embroidered needlepoint cushion when he and Renata had a falling out?
(a) Doris Scheldt.
(b) Mary Pickford.
(c) Demmie Vonghel.
(d) Allie Kabibble.

2. Charlie ruminates over Humboldt's obituary which appears in which newspaper?
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Chicago Sun Times.
(d) The Los Angeles Times.

3. Where does Cantabile want Charlie to go with him once they meet in the street outside the Baths?
(a) To the sauna.
(b) To his car.
(c) To the bathroom.
(d) To a deserted alley.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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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