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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Orlando Huggins?
(a) The game warden in Nevada.
(b) The executor of Humboldt's estate.
(c) Kathleen's divorce lawyer.
(d) Kathleen's third husband.

2. How does Charlie Citrine make a fortune?
(a) He wins the Nobel Prize.
(b) He writes a best-selling novel.
(c) He writes a Broadway play.
(d) He writes a film score.

3. What idea does Cantabile have that makes Charlie point his gun at him?
(a) Putting a "hit" on Denise.
(b) To kidnap one of Charlie's kids.
(c) Offering Polly to Charlie along with himself.
(d) Putting money into illegal Swiss accounts.

4. What college does Charlie Citrine attend?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) University of Iowa.
(c) Notre Dame.
(d) University of Wisconsin.

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

6. Whose long boring dinners, as Djilas describes them, does Charlie think of?
(a) Hitler's.
(b) Churchill's.
(c) Roosevelt's.
(d) Stalin's.

7. What is the title of of Von Humboldt Fleisher's book of ballads?
(a) Timaeus.
(b) Harlequin Ballads.
(c) From Hagel to Marx.
(d) Ballads of Love.

8. What does Cantabile offer to give Charlie while in his apartment?
(a) A share of stock.
(b) A gun.
(c) Money.
(d) A girlfriend.

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

10. How does Citrine first get in touch with Humboldt?
(a) He meets him in a bar.
(b) They meet on a Greyhound bus.
(c) He telephones him.
(d) He writes him a letter.

11. Why does someone who calls Charlie in the middle of the night say that Charlie owes him $450?
(a) He loaned Charlie money that he now wants back.
(b) Charlie never paid the man for a suit he bought.
(c) It is the money Charlie still owes on a car he bought.
(d) He won it from Charlie in a poker game.

12. According to Mickey, who owns the Baths?
(a) Father Siewell.
(b) The Syndicate.
(c) Rinaldo Cantabile.
(d) Management, downtown.

13. What does Renata think of Cantabile's suggestion that he rub out Denise for Charlie?
(a) It's horrifying.
(b) Charlie might be rubbed out next.
(c) She should call the police.
(d) It's not a bad idea.

14. Who is Desperate Ambrose?
(a) A little kid in the funnies.
(b) A mafiosa friend of Cantabile's.
(c) An old film star from the twentie's.
(d) A man wanted by the FBI.

15. What does Charlie tell Polly about his medal of honor?
(a) It is a kind of phony one.
(b) It is akin to being knighted.
(c) It is the highest honor given in France.
(d) He fought bravely for it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arranges to meet with Charlie at the Art Institute?

2. What kind of business does Frank Tigler own?

3. What does Humboldt tell Charlie he is charging him with in a lawsuit?

4. Who is responsible for Life magazine commissioning an article from Charlie?

5. What information does Charlie want from Langobadi?

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