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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 Charlie's original family name?
(a) Sistrine.
(b) Cistrain.
(c) Tsitrine.
(d) Sistine.

2. Where does Humboldt refuse to go and lecture in 1952?
(a) Moscow State University in Russia.
(b) Yale University in Connecticut.
(c) Oxford University in England..
(d) Free University in Berlin.

3. Why does Charlie enter a men's room stall as Srole is telling him what he can do to protect his money?
(a) To get away from him.
(b) To make a phone call in private.
(c) To urinate.
(d) To sit and cry.

4. What adjective does Judge Urbanovich use to refer to Charlie in his chambers?
(a) Mature.
(b) Demanding.
(c) Sensitive.
(d) Urbane.

5. Despite an action Humboldt takes, Von Trenck is a hit. What does Humboldt do to try and prevent this?
(a) He tries to murder the main actors.
(b) He attempts to bribe the critics.
(c) He pickets the theatre.
(d) He writes letters to newspapers about the play being bad.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is President of the United States when Charlie and his then-wife, Denise, are invited to the White House?

2. What happens to Hildenfisch at the racquet ball club?

3. What does Charlie's lawyer, Tomchek, want Charlie to do after meeting in chambers with the judge?

4. Who is Gaylord Koffritz?

5. What is Canatbile's wife doing her doctoral thesis on?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. Which of Charlie's family members does he briefly compare Langobardi to?

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

5. Humboldt used to accuse Charlie of trying to spend his whole life in the upper stories of higher consciousness. What is Humboldt's definition of higher consciousness?

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

7. Why does Charlie think of the Mozartian Italian Denise likes, "Tutto tutto gia si sa" (Everything, everything about me was known)?

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

9. 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?

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

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