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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 is the name of the Russian?
(a) Hermidov
(b) Tolstoy
(c) Kemidov
(d) Khruschev

2. What is the young doing?
(a) Staring at Spade
(b) Reading the newspaper
(c) Loading his gun
(d) Talking on the phone

3. How many hours had Brigid been waiting in Spade's office?
(a) Three hours
(b) One hour
(c) Four hours
(d) two hours

4. Where is the Ambassador Hotel?
(a) San Francisco
(b) Chicago
(c) Los Angeles
(d) New York

5. What is Sam doing when his phone rings?
(a) Drinking
(b) Fixing his sink
(c) Sleeping
(d) Watching TV

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Spade's secretary?

2. What motive does Iva think Spade had for killing Miles?

3. Why does Cairo point the gun at Spade the second time?

4. Who do the police take to the station?

5. Who does Brigid say hid the statue?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hammett use visual images in the novel?

2. In what way is the novel's attitude towards women demeaning?

3. What is Spade's ulterior motive in helping out Brigid?

4. How does Spade react to seeing the young man in the tenth chapter?

5. In what way does Brigid show her desperation for Spade services in the sixth chapter?

6. Describe the story Spade tells Brigid at the beginning of the seventh chapter?

7. How does Spade react to Iva's presence in the second chapter?

8. What happens when Spade returns to his apartment in the second chapter?

9. Describe Joel Cairo and what he wants.

10. Why is the sixth chapter called the undersized shadow?

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