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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 does Charlie tell Renata he is considering selling due to its current high value?
(a) His apartment.
(b) His autographed book by Humboldt.
(c) His Oriental rugs.
(d) His destroyed Mercedes.

2. As Charlie recalls the old days, what profound topic does Charlie ruminate on during his wait to be called by the bailiff from the jury pool?
(a) Politics.
(b) Freedom.
(c) The Nazis.
(d) Boredom.

3. When Cantabile approaches Thaxter and Charlie, what does he want Charlie to do?
(a) Get into the car.
(b) Introduce Thaxter to him.
(c) Go to lunch with him and Polly.
(d) Take him to the Arts Museum.

4. For how many years are Humboldt and Citrine estranged?
(a) Ten.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Fifteen.

5. When is Lucy due back from Nevada?
(a) Any minute.
(b) Tomorrow.
(c) The following month.
(d) In a few days.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Orlando Huggins?

2. What article of writing does Charlie consider selling before realizing no one would be eager to buy it?

3. What did George Swiebell do before he began his contracting business?

4. In which decade did Von Humboldt Fleisher publish his book of ballads?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does George's beryllium mining scheme not seem as far-fetched to Charlie now as it once did?

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

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

9. How does Cantabile make it clear to Charlie that he thinks he is vain?

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

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