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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 is Humboldt's gift?
2. What does Charlie receive in the mail from Kathleen?
3. Charlie relates to Naomi the details of Demmie's death. When Charlie flies down to South America to look for Demmie's body, what is Charlie thinking as he sits with the pilot?
4. What does Julius do with the food he buys for Hortense?
5. What is an item in the envelope besides the long letter and Humboldt's actual gift?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the reader come to realize how close Humboldt must have felt towards Uncle Waldemar?
2. Why does Charlie feel compelled to continue the work of the dead?
3. What is Charlie hoping to receive as he has now lived at the pension with Roger for ten weeks?
4. According to Humboldt's letter to Charlie, why does Charlie figure so prominently in his obsessions?
5. What does Renata think will happen to Charlie if he goes to Texas to see Julius?
6. When Charlie offers to put up the ransom for the return of Pierre, how does he expect to be repaid?
7. Why does Charlie believe that he cannot ask Renata to accompany him and the two older men from the nursing home out to lunch?
8. What happens to Corcoran's outlook when he repeats his romantic trip with his wife?
9. What is the relationship between Huggins and Charlie?
10. Why does Maggie plead Charlie's case to Stronson and get the charges dropped?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Charlie's brother, Julius, is about to undergo heart surgery. He is seen as being very overweight and a keen businessman.
Compare Julius to Humboldt. Also compare their relationships with Charlie.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast these characters: Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine.
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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