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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12, Through p. 342.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Humboldt attacks Magnasco on the streets of New York, who saves the young fellow's life?
(a) A nearby police officer.
(b) Charlie Citrine.
(c) A group of lesbians dressed like longshoremen.
(d) The staff of Howard Johnson's.

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

4. What does Humboldt think he and Charlie should do in light of the new US administration?
(a) Leave the country.
(b) Consider forming a new political party.
(c) Pay no more attention to politics.
(d) Prepare to elect someone different in four years.

5. What does Charlie promise to do for Waldemar even if the papers contain nothing valuable?
(a) Send him a check for $10,000.
(b) Buy him a crypt in Valhalla.
(c) Have his dead sister and nephew moved to another cemetery.
(d) Move him to a better nursing home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Naomi that Charlie plans to go away with Renata?

2. What is it that Charlie believes Cantabile loves to make?

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

4. What does Charlie ask Renata to do for him when they see the wheelchairs on the porch of the nursing home?

5. What is Guido Stronson trying to do that has Rinaldo furious?

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