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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) Stalin's.
(b) Hitler's.
(c) Churchill's.
(d) Roosevelt's.

2. Who is Pierre Thaxter?
(a) Cantabile's boss.
(b) Charlie's friend from California.
(c) Charlie's divorce lawyer.
(d) A friend of Polly's from France.

3. What disease did Charlie suffer from as a boy?
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Polio.

4. What is anthroposophy?
(a) The study of anthropods.
(b) The study of man's spiritual relationship to nature.
(c) An orthopedists's assistant.
(d) A procedure done with a needle and scope.

5. Who is Forrest Tomchek?
(a) Denise's lawyer.
(b) Cantabile's brother-in-law.
(c) Renata's ex-husband.
(d) Charlie's divorce lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which government official does Charlie spend five days with while writing an article for Life magazine?

2. How much must Charlie earn per year in order to pay Denise what the Judge believes he can?

3. What kind of flower does Charlie see Rinaldo as?

4. Why does Charlie enter a men's room stall as Srole is telling him what he can do to protect his money?

5. What does Charlie tell Polly about his medal of honor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Humboldt believe Kathleen's father did to her to keep her away from Humboldt?

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

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

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

5. Why does the Judge want to Charlie to post a large bail bond?

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

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

8. How do Charlie and Renata first get together?

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

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

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