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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 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.

2. Why does Charlie's friend tell him that he should not give the man demanding $450 the money?
(a) The man is a racketeer.
(b) He cheated Charlie at poker.
(c) The suit Charlie bought from him was a knock-off.
(d) Charlie paid too much for a car he bought fom him.

3. What does Charlie tell Renata he is considering selling due to its current high value?
(a) His Oriental rugs.
(b) His apartment.
(c) His destroyed Mercedes.
(d) His autographed book by Humboldt.

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

5. Why does Humboldt (in his letter) give as his reason for using the blood-brother check?
(a) Kathleen made him do it.
(b) Anger at Charlie for not visiting him in Bellevue.
(c) He was destitute.
(d) He thought it would bring Charlie to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose long letters does Charlie read while waiting on jury duty?

2. What does Charlie tell Waldemar could be in the envelope Humboldt left for him?

3. How does Charlie assume Denise finds out that he and Renata plan to leave the country?

4. What does Ezekiel Kamuttu, George's guide to the Olduval Gorge, claim to own?

5. In which decade did Von Humboldt Fleisher publish his book of ballads?

(see the answer key)

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