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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. In which decade did Von Humboldt Fleisher publish his book of ballads?
(a) The Twenties.
(b) The Thirties.
(c) The Forties.
(d) The Fifties.

2. Why is Huggins looking for Charlie?
(a) Humboldt had left him something.
(b) To arrest him.
(c) Tigler had him in his will.
(d) To give him a subpoena.

3. What college did Humboldt have a connection with to get Cintrine a job?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) New York University.

4. What article of writing does Charlie consider selling before realizing no one would be eager to buy it?
(a) "The Babylonian Talmud."
(b) "A Sack of Exotic Burlap."
(c) "Great Bores of the Modern World."
(d) "Mining Beryllium in Africa."

5. What does Charlie tell Polly about his medal of honor?
(a) He fought bravely for it.
(b) It is akin to being knighted.
(c) It is the highest honor given in France.
(d) It is a kind of phony one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave Charlie an embroidered needlepoint cushion when he and Renata had a falling out?

2. Why does Cantabile take Charlie to the Playboy Club?

3. Who mentions the author, Rudolf Steiner, to Charlie?

4. Whose newspaper column does Charlie Citrine appear in according to Cantabile's early edition of the morning's paper?

5. Who is Signor Caldofreddo?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Humboldt acting towards Kathleen after he loses the poetry chair at Princeton?

2. What does Canabile seem to want from Charlie other than help for his wife?

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

4. What are Charlie's ideas concerning boredom?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Pierre Thaxter rush to get into Cantabile's car and forgo buying the fish knives he had set out to purchase?

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