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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. Why does Charlie spend several months in South America near the Orinoco River?
(a) He goes there on a long vacation.
(b) He has gone to meet Demmie's father.
(c) He is researching a new play.
(d) He is looking for Demmie Vonghel's body.

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

3. Why is Huggins looking for Charlie?
(a) Humboldt had left him something.
(b) To give him a subpoena.
(c) To arrest him.
(d) Tigler had him in his will.

4. What does Humboldt say about Citrine winning the Pulitzer Prize for his book?
(a) "It's a great honor."
(b) "The Pulitzer is for the birds."
(c) "He is my friend."
(d) "If anyone deserves it, he does."

5. 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) "The Babylonian Talmud."
(d) "A Sack of Exotic Burlap."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who hires the psychiatrist, specializing in sex, for Charlie to talk with?

2. What ultimately happens to Humboldt's chair position at Princeton?

3. What information does Charlie want from Langobadi?

4. How does Charlie Citrine make a fortune?

5. Who is Forrest Tomchek?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Humboldt end up getting over six thousand dollars from Charlie after Charlie has a successful Broadway show?

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

3. Charlie goes to the Russian Baths to give Cantabile his money. What is Cantabile's demeanor like when he gets out of his car to meet Charlie outside the Baths?

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

5. What are Charlie's ideas concerning boredom?

6. What does meeting Naomi Lutz, Charlie's school-days' sweetheart, lead him to thoughts of?

7. What is Humboldt's reaction when Charlie tells him that the Chair, Ricketts, cannot give Humboldt a Poetry Chair because of budgetary reasons?

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

9. When Judge Urbanovich questions Charlie about his frequent trips to Europe, what does Charlie come to realize about Chicago and the judge?

10. Why does George dislike Dick Durnwald?

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