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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Charlie Citrine make a fortune?
2. Who is responsible for Life magazine commissioning an article from Charlie?
3. According to Judge Urbanovich, what is Charlie's problem in this case?
4. What kind of flower does Charlie see Rinaldo as?
5. How much must Charlie earn per year in order to pay Denise what the Judge believes he can?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the difference between Charlie's ex-wife, Denise, and his new girlfriend, Renata?
2. How is Humboldt acting towards Kathleen after he loses the poetry chair at Princeton?
3. When Charlie returns to Chicago after ignoring Humboldt on the streets of New York, he tells Denise about the incident. What, in his story about being on the helicopter with Dr. Longstaff from the old days, is ironic?
4. What does meeting Naomi Lutz, Charlie's school-days' sweetheart, lead him to thoughts of?
5. Humboldt used to accuse Charlie of trying to spend his whole life in the upper stories of higher consciousness. What is Humboldt's definition of higher consciousness?
6. When Charlie is being told by Judge Urbanovich that he cannot be allowed to dabble in the middle class and then drop out, how does Charlie react?
7. Why does George's beryllium mining scheme not seem as far-fetched to Charlie now as it once did?
8. How does Denise keep up-to-date on world news to prepare for a cultural evening at the White House?
9. Charlie goes to the Russian Baths to give Cantabile his money. What is Cantabile's demeanor like when he gets out of his car to meet Charlie outside the Baths?
10. Charlie Citrine, as an elderly man, looks for something along the curbs in Chicago. What does he search for and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
While Charlie is sitting on a sofa meditating, remembering everything that had happened in minute detail, Humboldt's obituary in the New York Times comes to his mind.
What is Charlie's view on the subject of the dead and the human soul?
How do the living starve the dead of their nourishment?
What happens to the soul in the next life?
Essay Topic 2
A tenant at the Madrid pension, Rebecca, makes advances towards Charlie. What prevents Charlie from going along with her? How would she compare to the other women who have been in his life?
Essay Topic 3
Alone in his room in Madrid while Roger is at school, Charlie meditates. How is he coming to terms with being a middle-aged man with no woman in his life and no money?
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