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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. Which government official does Charlie spend five days with while writing an article for Life magazine?
(a) Mayor RIchard Daley.
(b) Senator Robert Kennedy.
(c) Senator Jacob Javits.
(d) Senator Eugene McCarthy.

2. Whose long letters does Charlie read while waiting on jury duty?
(a) Pierre Thaxter's.
(b) George Swiebell's.
(c) Humboldt's.
(d) Demmie's.

3. Why does Charlie's friend tell him that he should not give the man demanding $450 the money?
(a) The suit Charlie bought from him was a knock-off.
(b) Charlie paid too much for a car he bought fom him.
(c) The man is a racketeer.
(d) He cheated Charlie at poker.

4. What does Humboldt say about Citrine winning the Pulitzer Prize for his book?
(a) "The Pulitzer is for the birds."
(b) "It's a great honor."
(c) "He is my friend."
(d) "If anyone deserves it, he does."

5. When Humboldt and Kathleen visit Charlie after Humboldt had just given a reading at Yale, what does Kathleen intimate to Charlie she plans to do?
(a) Leave Humboldt.
(b) Get hold of Humboldt's money.
(c) Stay with Humboldt, no matter what he does to her.
(d) Have Humboldt murdered.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Mickey, who owns the Baths?

4. Where does Cantabile tell Charlie to meet him with the money?

5. What information does Charlie want from Langobadi?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Charlie goes to the Russian Baths to give Cantabile his money. What is Cantabile's demeanor like when he gets out of his car to meet Charlie outside the Baths?

4. According to Humboldt, what is the only art intellectuals can be interested in?

5. 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?

6. What are Charlie's ideas concerning boredom?

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

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

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

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

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