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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 Senora's chief claim to fame founded upon?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Artistry.
(c) Motherhood.
(d) Hairstyling.

2. What is the name of the private eye Humboldt hired?
(a) Magnasco.
(b) Boehme.
(c) Hobbes.
(d) Scaccia.

3. Who gave Charlie an embroidered needlepoint cushion when he and Renata had a falling out?
(a) Doris Scheldt.
(b) Demmie Vonghel.
(c) Allie Kabibble.
(d) Mary Pickford.

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

5. What does Humboldt tell Charlie he is charging him with in a lawsuit?
(a) Theft.
(b) Embezzlement.
(c) Breach of contract.
(d) Adultery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose long letters does Charlie read while waiting on jury duty?

2. Who is Pierre Thaxter?

3. When Humboldt attacks Magnasco on the streets of New York, who saves the young fellow's life?

4. Why does Cantabile stay behind in the bathroom after speaking with Charlie?

5. According to Mickey, who owns the Baths?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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. In what way is Scaccia, the detective, blackmailing Charlie?

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

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

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