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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 college did Humboldt have a connection with to get Cintrine a job?
(a) New York University.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Princeton.

2. How does Frank Tigler die?
(a) He is caught in the middle of a shoot-out.
(b) Indians kills him.
(c) He commits suicide.
(d) He drowns in Volcano Lake.

3. After speaking with Judge Urbanovich in chambers, what does Charlie want to do about the case?
(a) Call Cantabile and have Denise killed.
(b) Leave the country and not return.
(c) Go to trial.
(d) Settle.

4. In which decade did Von Humboldt Fleisher publish his book of ballads?
(a) The Fifties.
(b) The Twenties.
(c) The Forties.
(d) The Thirties.

5. Why does Humboldt sneak into Dr. Longstaff's private elevator and have a meeting with him?
(a) To have Ricketts fired so he can have a chair at Princeton.
(b) To get on his good side.
(c) To ask the Belisha Foundation to endow a chair for him.
(d) He wants to discuss the great poets and impress Longstaff.

Short Answer Questions

1. What information does Charlie want from Langobadi?

2. What college does Charlie Citrine attend?

3. What adjective does Judge Urbanovich use to refer to Charlie in his chambers?

4. How does Citrine first get in touch with Humboldt?

5. What does Cantabile offer to give Charlie while in his apartment?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Which of Charlie's family members does he briefly compare Langobardi to?

3. What does Canabile seem to want from Charlie other than help for his wife?

4. In what way is Scaccia, the detective, blackmailing Charlie?

5. Why does Charlie think of the Mozartian Italian Denise likes, "Tutto tutto gia si sa" (Everything, everything about me was known)?

6. What does Charlie think Cantabile's rank and place in the organized crime world is?

7. How is Humboldt acting towards Kathleen after he loses the poetry chair at Princeton?

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

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

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

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