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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 is the name of the man that Charlie gave a check to and then stopped payment on it?
(a) Rinaldo Cantabile.
(b) Bill Thompson.
(c) Morris Eller.
(d) George Swiebel.

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

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

4. Who does Cantabile take Charlie to meet in the Hancock Building?
(a) A Japanese martial arts expert.
(b) A newspaper columnist.
(c) An old man who deals in jewelry.
(d) A distant relative of President Harding.

5. Who hires the psychiatrist, specializing in sex, for Charlie to talk with?
(a) Demmie.
(b) Charlie.
(c) Denise.
(d) Humboldt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Srole think Urbanovich wants to help Denise?

2. How does Humboldt diagnose himself as a manic depressive?

3. For how many years are Humboldt and Citrine estranged?

4. Who is Pierre Thaxter?

5. What is the title of of Von Humboldt Fleisher's book of ballads?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does George dislike Dick Durnwald?

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

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

5. When Charlie is being told by Judge Urbanovich that he cannot be allowed to dabble in the middle class and then drop out, how does Charlie react?

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

7. Why does Humboldt tell Charlie that he wants Adlai Stevenson to win the election over Eisenhower?

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

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

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

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