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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 is the reason Magnasco does not want to call the police on Humboldt?
(a) He is afraid Humboldt will attack him further.
(b) He intends to attack Humboldt himself when the time comes.
(c) He does not want revenge from Charlie Citrine.
(d) He does not want to get a bad name within the New York culture crowd.

2. 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.

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

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

5. Who does Charlie find at the Russian Baths and is happy that it is not George Siewell?
(a) Dr. Lutz.
(b) Humboldt.
(c) George's father.
(d) Menasha.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Charlie's friend tell him that he should not give the man demanding $450 the money?

4. Which government official does Charlie spend five days with while writing an article for Life magazine?

5. What does Humboldt think he and Charlie should do in light of the new US administration?

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