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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7, Through p. 228.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cantabile tell Charlie he must do before getting together with Polly?
(a) Wear a proper tie and jacket.
(b) Go through him first.
(c) Not even think about it.
(d) Bring her roses.

2. What is Canatbile's wife doing her doctoral thesis on?
(a) The Mafia.
(b) Pulitzer.
(c) Von Humboldt Fleisher.
(d) Jewish culture.

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

4. Despite an action Humboldt takes, Von Trenck is a hit. What does Humboldt do to try and prevent this?
(a) He attempts to bribe the critics.
(b) He pickets the theatre.
(c) He writes letters to newspapers about the play being bad.
(d) He tries to murder the main actors.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What film director did Humboldt admire?

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

3. Who hires the psychiatrist, specializing in sex, for Charlie to talk with?

4. Who became Humboldt's best friend after he felt Charlie deceived him?

5. How does Charlie Citrine make a fortune?

(see the answer key)

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