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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 14, Through p. 376.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charlie want to do when Scaccia demands money from him on behalf of Humboldt?
(a) Tell him off.
(b) Kill him.
(c) Call Humboldt.
(d) Leave town.

2. When Humboldt and Kathleen visit Charlie after Humboldt had just given a reading at Yale, what does Kathleen intimate to Charlie she plans to do?
(a) Get hold of Humboldt's money.
(b) Have Humboldt murdered.
(c) Stay with Humboldt, no matter what he does to her.
(d) Leave Humboldt.

3. What is the name of the private eye Humboldt hired?
(a) Hobbes.
(b) Magnasco.
(c) Boehme.
(d) Scaccia.

4. While sitting trapped in Cantabile's car, Charlie thinks of a philosophical conversation he often had with someone. Who is this person?
(a) His father.
(b) Pierre Thaxter.
(c) Von Humboldt Fleisher.
(d) Dr. Scheldt.

5. Who is Orlando Huggins?
(a) Kathleen's divorce lawyer.
(b) Kathleen's third husband.
(c) The game warden in Nevada.
(d) The executor of Humboldt's estate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who hires the psychiatrist, specializing in sex, for Charlie to talk with?

2. Why is Huggins looking for Charlie?

3. Who does Charlie get a call from while lunching in The Oak Room with Renata?

4. What does Humboldt tell Charlie he is charging him with in a lawsuit?

5. Despite an action Humboldt takes, Von Trenck is a hit. What does Humboldt do to try and prevent this?

(see the answer key)

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