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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 receive in the mail from Kathleen?
(a) Another envelope from Humboldt.
(b) Just a letter.
(c) The new movie script.
(d) A check.

2. Where does Charlie get the money to pay for the $200,000 bond?
(a) Renata's father.
(b) Thaxter's publishing friend.
(c) Naomi.
(d) Julius.

3. What is Humboldt's gift?
(a) A treatment for a screenplay.
(b) An Oldsmobile.
(c) A pawn check for Oriental rugs.
(d) A love letter from Kathleen.

4. Who shows up unannounced at Charlie's door in Madrid?
(a) Naomi.
(b) Denise.
(c) Cantabile.
(d) Renata.

5. Who comes to tell Charlie that Stronson has dropped the charges against him?
(a) Pierre.
(b) The cop in Stronson's office.
(c) Stronson's receptionist.
(d) Szathmar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charlie buy on Wacker Drive?

2. What did Charlie's friend, Menasha, always want to be?

3. How does Charlie get Waldemar to finally show him the contents of the envelope Humboldt has left him?

4. Why does Cantabile bring Charlie with him to visit Stronson?

5. What is Kafka's description of Steiner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Renata think will happen to Charlie if he goes to Texas to see Julius?

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

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

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

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

6. According to Humboldt's letter to Charlie, why does Charlie figure so prominently in his obsessions?

7. Why does Naomi beg George to take her son with him to Africa?

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

9. What is the relationship between Huggins and Charlie?

10. 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?

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