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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Forty - Forty-one.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What building is Derace Kingsley's office in?
(a) Th Gillerlain Building.
(b) The Treloar Building.
(c) The Bristow Building.
(d) The Lindstrom Building.

2. What does Marlowe ask Kingsley, before explaining what he's discovered?
(a) Whether he's alone.
(b) Whether he's ready.
(c) Whether he wants to hear the bad news.
(d) Whether he's sitting down.

3. What does Webber take off his desk and break, more than once during his interview with Marlowe?
(a) Pencils.
(b) Crackers.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Matches.

4. What is Lavery's first reaction when Marlowe says he's working for Kingsley?
(a) To ask Marlowe in.
(b) To shut the window and not talk with Marlowe.
(c) To tell Marlowe to meet him later, in more privacy.
(d) To phone Kingsley and find out if Marlowe's telling the truth.

5. Where does the black Cadillac coupe come from that drives by Marlowe, as he is knocking at Lavery's door?
(a) The cross-street to the north.
(b) The cross-street to the south.
(c) The house across the street from Lavery's.
(d) The house next to Lavery's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose car is in Kingsley's garage when Degarmo and Marlowe go to Kingsley's house?

2. How far behind in his rent does the woman say Lavery is?

3. What color is Captain Webber's hair?

4. Who does Marlowe suggest to Miss Fromsett might have killed Lavery, aside from Mrs. Kingsley?

5. What does Patton say he would have done, if he'd thought of the idea that the body in the lake might have been Crystal Kingsley instead of Muriel Chess?

(see the answer key)

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