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

2. Where does Cantabile tell Charlie to meet him with the money?
(a) The Carnegie Deli.
(b) The Downtown Club.
(c) The Belasco.
(d) The Russian Bath.

3. Who gave Charlie an embroidered needlepoint cushion when he and Renata had a falling out?
(a) Mary Pickford.
(b) Doris Scheldt.
(c) Allie Kabibble.
(d) Demmie Vonghel.

4. Who mentions the author, Rudolf Steiner, to Charlie?
(a) Humboldt.
(b) Cantabile.
(c) Durnwald.
(d) Denise.

5. Who arranges for Renata and Charlie to get together at a subway bar?
(a) Scheldt.
(b) Koffritz.
(c) Szathmar.
(d) Karamazov.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Charlie's Mercedes-Benz one night in Chicago?

2. Why does Charlie spend several months in South America near the Orinoco River?

3. Who is Forrest Tomchek?

4. Why does Cantabile take Charlie to the Playboy Club?

5. What does Cantabile offer to give Charlie while in his apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Charlie think Cantabile's rank and place in the organized crime world is?

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

3. Why does George's beryllium mining scheme not seem as far-fetched to Charlie now as it once did?

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

5. Why does Charlie continue to have a relationship with Pierre Thaxter?

6. Why does Charlie think of the Mozartian Italian Denise likes, "Tutto tutto gia si sa" (Everything, everything about me was known)?

7. Which of Charlie's family members does he briefly compare Langobardi to?

8. Charlie plays racquetball with Vito LangobardiIn, a big-time hoodlum. In what way is Charlie attached to Vito?

9. How has Cantabile's attitude towards Charlie changed?

10. Humboldt basically dies a failure in society's eyes. What, upon his death, brings him back to prominence?

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