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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Marlowe ask about that makes Bill Chess get defensive?
2. What animal does Marlowe compare the blonde at the PBX to?
3. What is the woman Marlowe meets at Lavery's house holding?
4. What does Marlowe use to open the locked door?
5. What icon does Marlowe have on the business card that he doesn't give to Adrienne Fromsett?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Marlowe know the name of the person who lives across the street from Lavery?
2. What items of interest does Marlowe find in Lavery's closet?
3. What things does Marlowe list that might have happened to Kingsley's wife?
4. Where do Marlowe and Birdie go to talk?
5. What excuse does Bill Chess give for his erratic behavior?
6. What reason does Sheriff Patton give why Bill might have stayed in town if he killed his wife?
7. How does Bill Chess respond when Marlowe asks if Muriel and Crystal might have gone away together?
8. Under what terms does Marlowe accept the offer of five hundred dollars from Kingsley?
9. What do Bill Chess's wife and Kingsley's wife have in common?
10. What reasons does Marlowe give that Lavery might be lying?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The story behind The Lady in the Lake is one of relationships: husbands and wives, lovers, and jealous rivals. Discuss relationships in the novel.
1) What do men and women want from relationships in the novel?
2) Discuss Lavery's relationships. Who is Lavery? What do women want from him? What does Lavery expect out of relationships?
3) Do romantic relationships lead to happiness in the novel? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Marlowe's job puts him into dangerous situations. Discuss danger in the novel.
1) What causes danger in the novel? How is danger inherent in Marlowe's work?
2) How does Marlowe react to dangerous situations? What are his emotional responses? What are his intellectual responses, and what action does he take?
3) How do the antagonists in the novel react when they are in danger?
Essay Topic 3
The Lady in the Lake has multiple antagonists who have different goals. Discuss the antagonists in the novel.
1) What antagonists in the novel are obvious and what antagonists are hidden? How do multiple antagonists function in the genre to create mystery and conflict?
2) Discuss Degarmo and Mildred Haviland as antagonists. What different roles do they fill?
3) How do the police function as antagonists?
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