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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. What happens to Hildenfisch at the racquet ball club?

2. How do Renata and Charlie first meet?

3. What is the reason Magnasco does not want to call the police on Humboldt?

4. When is Lucy due back from Nevada?

5. What is the subject of the master essay that Charlie has been writing for years?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Judge want to Charlie to post a large bail bond?

2. When Judge Urbanovich questions Charlie about his frequent trips to Europe, what does Charlie come to realize about Chicago and the judge?

3. What does the protagonist mean when it is stated that, ". . . after all Broadway adjoins the garment district and blends with it?"

4. 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?

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

6. According to Humboldt, what is the only art intellectuals can be interested in?

7. Charlie plays racquetball with Vito LangobardiIn, a big-time hoodlum. In what way is Charlie attached to Vito?

8. 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?

9. Why does George dislike Dick Durnwald?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Renata marries Flonzaley without first informing Charlie. Describe Renata's reasoning for doing this. What is Charlie's reaction? Is he justified in his reaction?

Essay Topic 2

Renata makes it clear to Charlie that he thinks too much about death. In what ways does Charlie feel Renata also has a deep connection with death?

Essay Topic 3

In one conversation Charlie remembers having with Professor Scheldt, they discuss Steiner. Charlie wants to be sure he understands the notion that thought in his head is also thought in the external world. He remembers the theory being that consciousness in the self creates a false distinction between object and matter.

As an example, how does Charlie compare the physical body to the spirit, leading to death?

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