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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 through 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does not describe Moose Malloy?
(a) In perpetual need of a shave.
(b) Wearing a grey sports coat with white golf ball buttons.
(c) Bald with thick black spectacles.
(d) Six foot five inches tall and not wider than a beer truck.

2. Why is Lieutenant Nulty bitter?
(a) The department only gives him low-priority cases to solve.
(b) He can't get a pay raise.
(c) He can't get a promotion.
(d) His wife has just left him.

3. Which of the following is not something that Marlowe discovers is missing at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) The money from his inside coat pocket.
(b) Lindsay Marriott.
(c) The car, which has been moved to a new location.
(d) His watch.

4. As the novel opens, who is Marlowe trying to find?
(a) His bookie, Louis.
(b) A missing barber named Dimitrios Aleidis.
(c) A missing schoolteacher named Leigh Jordan.
(d) His secretary, Cassandra.

5. Who has taken over the ownership and patronage of Florian's since Malloy's last visit there?
(a) An Italian gang.
(b) Malloy's ex-wife and her family.
(c) An Irish gang.
(d) African Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what crime was Malloy falsely accused and sent to prison?

2. What is in the envelope that Jessie Florian gives Marlowe in Chapter 5?

3. What is Philip Marlowe's profession?

4. Whom does Moose Malloy toss out of Florian's in Chapter 1?

5. What does Anne Riordan suspect about the three mysterious Russian cigarettes?

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