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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7, Through p. 228.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason Magnasco does not want to call the police on Humboldt?
(a) He is afraid Humboldt will attack him further.
(b) He does not want revenge from Charlie Citrine.
(c) He intends to attack Humboldt himself when the time comes.
(d) He does not want to get a bad name within the New York culture crowd.

2. What happens to Charlie's Mercedes-Benz one night in Chicago?
(a) It is ticketed.
(b) It is painted over.
(c) It is stolen.
(d) It is attacked with what appears to be baseball bats.

3. When a wrinkled postcard falls to the floor, what does Charlie see that it is?
(a) A rejection of his latest writing submission.
(b) A threatening note from Cantabile.
(c) A poem that Humboldt wrote.
(d) A last love note from Denise.

4. Whose long boring dinners, as Djilas describes them, does Charlie think of?
(a) Churchill's.
(b) Roosevelt's.
(c) Stalin's.
(d) Hitler's.

5. Why does someone who calls Charlie in the middle of the night say that Charlie owes him $450?
(a) It is the money Charlie still owes on a car he bought.
(b) He won it from Charlie in a poker game.
(c) He loaned Charlie money that he now wants back.
(d) Charlie never paid the man for a suit he bought.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Charlie's original family name?

2. In which decade did Von Humboldt Fleisher publish his book of ballads?

3. What is the Senora's chief claim to fame founded upon?

4. Who does Cantabile bring with him to visit Charlie?

5. For how many years are Humboldt and Citrine estranged?

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