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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8, Through p. 236.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Humboldt, who is America's great Manic Depressive?
(a) Teddy Roosevelt.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Bobby Kennedy.

2. How does Charlie assume Denise finds out that he and Renata plan to leave the country?
(a) Through his own lawyers.
(b) A cabdriver overhears and tips Denise off.
(c) Renata has bragged about it.
(d) Possibly the Senora has bragged around town.

3. How much must Charlie earn per year in order to pay Denise what the Judge believes he can?
(a) $50,000.
(b) $100,000.
(c) $200,000.
(d) $1 million.

4. Why does Charlie enter a men's room stall as Srole is telling him what he can do to protect his money?
(a) To urinate.
(b) To sit and cry.
(c) To get away from him.
(d) To make a phone call in private.

5. When a wrinkled postcard falls to the floor, what does Charlie see that it is?
(a) A last love note from Denise.
(b) A threatening note from Cantabile.
(c) A rejection of his latest writing submission.
(d) A poem that Humboldt wrote.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Whose long boring dinners, as Djilas describes them, does Charlie think of?

3. What does Humboldt say about Citrine winning the Pulitzer Prize for his book?

4. Who is President of the United States when Charlie and his then-wife, Denise, are invited to the White House?

5. Who is Harold Flonzaley?

(see the answer key)

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