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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Humboldt tell Charlie he is charging him with in a lawsuit?
(a) Embezzlement.
(b) Breach of contract.
(c) Theft.
(d) Adultery.

2. What article of writing does Charlie consider selling before realizing no one would be eager to buy it?
(a) "Great Bores of the Modern World."
(b) "Mining Beryllium in Africa."
(c) "A Sack of Exotic Burlap."
(d) "The Babylonian Talmud."

3. Who does the Judge bring up as someone whose unique ideas made millions?
(a) The Maharishi.
(b) Tom Carvel.
(c) Bill Gates.
(d) Kathleen Tigler.

4. What did George Swiebell do before he began his contracting business?
(a) He was a singer.
(b) He was a salesman.
(c) He was an actor.
(d) He wrote for a newspaper.

5. How does Frank Tigler die?
(a) He commits suicide.
(b) He is caught in the middle of a shoot-out.
(c) Indians kills him.
(d) He drowns in Volcano Lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose newspaper column does Charlie Citrine appear in according to Cantabile's early edition of the morning's paper?

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

3. What does Cantabile ultimately do with most of the money Charlie gives him?

4. What is anthroposophy?

5. What is Charlie's original family name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Charlie believe Americans have trouble keeping secrets?

2. What does Canabile seem to want from Charlie other than help for his wife?

3. When Charlie returns to Chicago after ignoring Humboldt on the streets of New York, he tells Denise about the incident. What, in his story about being on the helicopter with Dr. Longstaff from the old days, is ironic?

4. How is Humboldt acting towards Kathleen after he loses the poetry chair at Princeton?

5. In what way is Scaccia, the detective, blackmailing Charlie?

6. Humboldt cashes in Charlie's "blood-brother" check. How is this done at a very bad time in Charlie's life?

7. How does Charlie come to be blamed for Humboldt's admittance to Bellevue?

8. What is the difference between Charlie's ex-wife, Denise, and his new girlfriend, Renata?

9. What does the protagonist mean when it is stated that, ". . . after all Broadway adjoins the garment district and blends with it?"

10. What is the connection between Charlie's friend, George Swiebel, and Renata's former husband, Gaylord Koffritz?

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