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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Humboldt think he and Charlie should do in light of the new US administration?
(a) Prepare to elect someone different in four years.
(b) Leave the country.
(c) Consider forming a new political party.
(d) Pay no more attention to politics.

2. Charlie ruminates over Humboldt's obituary which appears in which newspaper?
(a) The Chicago Sun Times.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Washington Post.
(d) The Los Angeles Times.

3. For how many years are Humboldt and Citrine estranged?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Fifteen.

4. What college does Charlie Citrine attend?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) University of Wisconsin.
(c) University of Iowa.
(d) Notre Dame.

5. What happens to Hildenfisch at the racquet ball club?
(a) He wins at Cut-Throat.
(b) He dies.
(c) Langobardi threatens him.
(d) He befriends Charlie.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose long boring dinners, as Djilas describes them, does Charlie think of?

3. What does Renata think of Cantabile's suggestion that he rub out Denise for Charlie?

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

5. Who is responsible for Life magazine commissioning an article from Charlie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Humboldt believe Kathleen's father did to her to keep her away from Humboldt?

2. Why does Charlie believe Americans have trouble keeping secrets?

3. How does Humboldt end up getting over six thousand dollars from Charlie after Charlie has a successful Broadway show?

4. What is the connection between Charlie's friend, George Swiebel, and Renata's former husband, Gaylord Koffritz?

5. Why does George's beryllium mining scheme not seem as far-fetched to Charlie now as it once did?

6. How does Charlie come to be blamed for Humboldt's admittance to Bellevue?

7. Why does George dislike Dick Durnwald?

8. Why does Charlie continue to have a relationship with Pierre Thaxter?

9. What does the protagonist mean when it is stated that, ". . . after all Broadway adjoins the garment district and blends with it?"

10. Why does Humboldt tell Charlie that he wants Adlai Stevenson to win the election over Eisenhower?

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