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

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

3. When Humboldt attacks Magnasco on the streets of New York, who saves the young fellow's life?
(a) A nearby police officer.
(b) The staff of Howard Johnson's.
(c) Charlie Citrine.
(d) A group of lesbians dressed like longshoremen.

4. What does Charlie tell Renata he is considering selling due to its current high value?
(a) His apartment.
(b) His Oriental rugs.
(c) His destroyed Mercedes.
(d) His autographed book by Humboldt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Charlie ruminates over Humboldt's obituary which appears in which newspaper?

2. According to Mickey, who owns the Baths?

3. What kind of business does Frank Tigler own?

4. What does Cantabile tell Charlie he must do before getting together with Polly?

5. Who is Forrest Tomchek?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Cantabile make it clear to Charlie that he thinks he is vain?

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

4. Charlie Citrine, as an elderly man, looks for something along the curbs in Chicago. What does he search for and why?

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Pierre Thaxter rush to get into Cantabile's car and forgo buying the fish knives he had set out to purchase?

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

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