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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. How is Denise's attitude changed when she leaves the judge's chambers?
(a) She demands more money.
(b) She is crying.
(c) She wants the chidren to never see Charlie again.
(d) She is very solicitous.

2. Whose newspaper column does Charlie Citrine appear in according to Cantabile's early edition of the morning's paper?
(a) Avery Schriber's.
(b) Mike Lucik's.
(c) Mike LaSalle's.
(d) Mike Schneiderman's.

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

4. Who does the Judge insinuate he would unleash upon Charlie if he does not cooperate?
(a) Mr Pinsker.
(b) Mrs. Citrine.
(c) Mr. Tomchek.
(d) Mr. Srole.

5. How does Charlie Citrine make a fortune?
(a) He writes a film score.
(b) He writes a Broadway play.
(c) He writes a best-selling novel.
(d) He wins the Nobel Prize.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Orlando Huggins?

3. What does Renata think of Cantabile's suggestion that he rub out Denise for Charlie?

4. Who is responsible for Life magazine commissioning an article from Charlie?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Charlie returns to Chicago after ignoring Humboldt on the streets of New York, he tells Denise about the incident. What, in his story about being on the helicopter with Dr. Longstaff from the old days, is ironic?

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

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

5. Why does George dislike Dick Durnwald?

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

7. What are Charlie's ideas concerning boredom?

8. What is the difference between Charlie's ex-wife, Denise, and his new girlfriend, Renata?

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

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

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