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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5, Through p. 169.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Charlie's friend tell him that he should not give the man demanding $450 the money?
(a) The man is a racketeer.
(b) Charlie paid too much for a car he bought fom him.
(c) The suit Charlie bought from him was a knock-off.
(d) He cheated Charlie at poker.

2. Which Presidential election outcome was a personal disaster to Humboldt?
(a) Nixon.
(b) Kennedy.
(c) Truman.
(d) Eisenhower.

3. What kind of flower does Charlie see Rinaldo as?
(a) A venus fly trap.
(b) A white calla lily.
(c) A hawthorn.
(d) A tiger lily.

4. How much money does Charlie lose at the poker game, including what he loses to Rinaldo?
(a) Five hundred dollars.
(b) Six hundred dollars.
(c) Four hundred fifty dollars.
(d) One thousand dollars.

5. Who is the poker game at George's house organized around?
(a) The tuxedo-renting Lithuanian.
(b) An undertaker.
(c) Charlie.
(d) Rinaldo and his cousin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Humboldt say about Citrine winning the Pulitzer Prize for his book?

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

4. Who is President of the United States when Charlie and his then-wife, Denise, are invited to the White House?

5. Where does Humboldt refuse to go and lecture in 1952?

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