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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Cantabile approaches Thaxter and Charlie, what does he want Charlie to do?
(a) Take him to the Arts Museum.
(b) Introduce Thaxter to him.
(c) Get into the car.
(d) Go to lunch with him and Polly.

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

3. Who is Desperate Ambrose?
(a) An old film star from the twentie's.
(b) A mafiosa friend of Cantabile's.
(c) A little kid in the funnies.
(d) A man wanted by the FBI.

4. Where does Cantabile tell Charlie to meet him with the money?
(a) The Russian Bath.
(b) The Carnegie Deli.
(c) The Downtown Club.
(d) The Belasco.

5. What information does Charlie want from Langobadi?
(a) Where he gets his shirts.
(b) How deep into the Mob he is.
(c) To know how dangerous Cantabile is.
(d) Who styles his hair.

6. When is Lucy due back from Nevada?
(a) The following month.
(b) Any minute.
(c) Tomorrow.
(d) In a few days.

7. What is anthroposophy?
(a) The study of anthropods.
(b) A procedure done with a needle and scope.
(c) An orthopedists's assistant.
(d) The study of man's spiritual relationship to nature.

8. When Humboldt calls Charlie at the Bellasco Theatre from Bellvue, what does he want?
(a) Free tickets to all shows.
(b) The money Charlie and Demmie had raised.
(c) An apology from Charlie and Magnasco.
(d) To meet with him.

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

10. What does Charlie tell Polly about his medal of honor?
(a) It is a kind of phony one.
(b) It is akin to being knighted.
(c) It is the highest honor given in France.
(d) He fought bravely for it.

11. What does Gaylord Koffritz bore George's father, Myron, with in the Russian Baths?
(a) The best way to shave without nicking one's self.
(b) How he wore a hole in Renata's car.
(c) Sales pitches of cemeteries and mausoleums.
(d) Stories of the old days.

12. Why does Charlie spend several months in South America near the Orinoco River?
(a) He is researching a new play.
(b) He is looking for Demmie Vonghel's body.
(c) He goes there on a long vacation.
(d) He has gone to meet Demmie's father.

13. How does Charlie assume Denise finds out that he and Renata plan to leave the country?
(a) Renata has bragged about it.
(b) A cabdriver overhears and tips Denise off.
(c) Through his own lawyers.
(d) Possibly the Senora has bragged around town.

14. Who gave Charlie an embroidered needlepoint cushion when he and Renata had a falling out?
(a) Allie Kabibble.
(b) Doris Scheldt.
(c) Mary Pickford.
(d) Demmie Vonghel.

15. Why does Humboldt say his mother used to send him to Chicago?
(a) To make some money.
(b) To find a wife.
(c) To go to school.
(d) To spy on his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who mentions the author, Rudolf Steiner, to Charlie?

2. What disease did Charlie suffer from as a boy?

3. What ultimately happens to Humboldt's chair position at Princeton?

4. What did George Swiebell do before he began his contracting business?

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

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