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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 does Charlie find at the Russian Baths and is happy that it is not George Siewell?
(a) George's father.
(b) Menasha.
(c) Humboldt.
(d) Dr. Lutz.

2. After speaking with Judge Urbanovich in chambers, what does Charlie want to do about the case?
(a) Go to trial.
(b) Settle.
(c) Leave the country and not return.
(d) Call Cantabile and have Denise killed.

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

4. What is Canatbile's wife doing her doctoral thesis on?
(a) Pulitzer.
(b) The Mafia.
(c) Von Humboldt Fleisher.
(d) Jewish culture.

5. Who is President of the United States when Charlie and his then-wife, Denise, are invited to the White House?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Nixon.
(d) Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Steiner's book of meditative exerciess?

2. How does Citrine first get in touch with Humboldt?

3. Where does Humboldt refuse to go and lecture in 1952?

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

5. According to Humboldt, who is America's great Manic Depressive?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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. How do Charlie and Renata first get together?

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

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

7. How does Denise keep up-to-date on world news to prepare for a cultural evening at the White House?

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

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

10. Humboldt basically dies a failure in society's eyes. What, upon his death, brings him back to prominence?

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