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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, pages 177-200.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Marv convince the priest to give him the name of the person who ordered Goldie's death?
(a) He threatens to burn down the confessional.
(b) He holds the priest underwater.
(c) He lets the priest hear him cocking his pistol.
(d) He threatens to go to the newspaper with the story.

2. What does Lucille warn Marv will be the penalty for his activities that night?
(a) Execution.
(b) He will no longer be able to contact her.
(c) Institutionalization.
(d) Life in prison.

3. What impresses Marv about the Mercedes?
(a) It handles well.
(b) His blood does not stain the seat.
(c) The radio is set to a country station.
(d) It smells nice.

4. Why does Marv go to the hardware store in chapter nine?
(a) He needs to fix his axe.
(b) He has to pick up supplies.
(c) He is going to have Wendy hide out in the reinforced safe room there.
(d) He has a contact there with guns.

5. When Marv wakes up in the room with Lucille, what does he see mounted on the wall?
(a) Women's dresses.
(b) Women's shoes.
(c) Women's fingernails.
(d) Women's heads.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is watching Marv as he leaves the bar at the end of Chapter 4?

2. What does Marv believe about the woman who hit him with her car?

3. Who is the stripper onstage at Kadie's when Marv arrives?

4. What is Wendy's relationship to Goldie?

5. Describe the weather at the beginning of "The Hard Goodbye."

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