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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. How does Renata feel about going with Charlie to see Waldemar in the nursing home?
(a) Delighted.
(b) Weak.
(c) Annoyed.
(d) Sad.

2. What is it that Charlie believes Cantabile loves to make?
(a) Threats.
(b) Pasta.
(c) Conversation with Charlie.
(d) Plans to join the Mafia.

3. What is Guido Stronson trying to do that has Rinaldo furious?
(a) Put a hit on Rinaldo.
(b) Scam the Mafia
(c) Murder Judge Urbanovich.
(d) Make a move on Polly.

4. What project does Julius offer Charlie to get in on the ground floor with him?
(a) A new opera house in Milan.
(b) A luxury hotel in the Gulf of Mexico.
(c) A first edition of The Ark.
(d) The sale of Cuban cigars.

5. What offer from the movie people does Charlie turn down?
(a) To act as a consultant.
(b) To act as a stunt man.
(c) To be an extra.
(d) To write a biography exposing Humboldt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the Stronson's receptionist turn out to be?

2. What is Naomi's new last name?

3. Who does Charlie go to Paris with?

4. Where does the final scene in the book take place?

5. What does Naomi ask Charlie to do in order for her to judge if he would make more sense to her now that she is older?

Short Essay Questions

1. As Charlie thinks about oblivion and death as being all we have to expect out of this world, what options present themselves to him in order to meet this end?

2. What thoughts does Charlie have during the intermission of a Christmas Pageant he is attending with his children?

3. Why does Charlie fail to say anything when Renata tells him the operator at the Plaza called her Mrs. Citrine?

4. How does Charlie's theory that some people have no use for their gifts and can think only of overcoming their weaknesses apply to Charlie and Humboldt?

5. Why does Charlie begin to cry while watching the film in Paris with Rinaldo?

6. Why does Maggie plead Charlie's case to Stronson and get the charges dropped?

7. What is Humboldt's Uncle Waldemar afraid that Charlie might do when he is given the envelope?

8. What is Charlie hoping to receive as he has now lived at the pension with Roger for ten weeks?

9. How does the reader come to realize how close Humboldt must have felt towards Uncle Waldemar?

10. How does Charlie explain his relationship with Roger to people abroad?

(see the answer keys)

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