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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 happens to Thaxter in Argentina?
(a) He runs into George and Naomi's son.
(b) He finds money in bilyrrium.
(c) He is supposedly kidnapped for ransom.
(d) He writes a new film script.

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

3. What does Denise let Charlie know via a note from his daughter?
(a) She will drop the court case.
(b) Her life has been threatened.
(c) His daughters will never see him after this.
(d) She needs more money.

4. What does Renata end up doing because Charlie has not proposed marriage?
(a) She commits suicide.
(b) She marries Flonzaley.
(c) She buys her own engagement ring.
(d) She runs away to Mexico.

5. What produces autonomous beings that appear animated, giddy, and free but in the final analysis are boring and of little relevance?
(a) The IRS.
(b) The Exousiai.
(c) The Spirits of Form.
(d) The Archai.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Charlie worried Renata will do if he is locked up in jail?

2. Who does Humboldt want to play the role of Zane Bigoulis?

3. What is Stronson's actual job before becoming a scam artist?

4. Who comes to tell Charlie that Stronson has dropped the charges against him?

5. Why is it that Corcoran feels at first that he cannot publish his book?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Charlie have confidence in PIerre Thaxter's ability to get help for him while in jail?

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. When Charlie offers to put up the ransom for the return of Pierre, how does he expect to be repaid?

9. What happens to Corcoran's outlook when he repeats his romantic trip with his wife?

10. During Charlie's visit with Naomi, why does Naomi believe the two of them would never have made a lasting relationship together?

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