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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Canino use to poison Jones?
(a) Bleach
(b) Cyanide
(c) Acid
(d) Deadly Nightingale

2. What does Marlowe do after making his phone calls?
(a) Goes to bed
(b) Pours a stiff drink
(c) Loads his gun
(d) Listens to music

3. Who could Marlowe get a full-time job working for?
(a) Captain Gregory
(b) General Sternwood
(c) Rusty Regan
(d) Eddie Amrs

4. Where does Marlowe take Vivian?
(a) His apartment
(b) A bar
(c) To the Sternwood's
(d) A diner

5. What do Marlowe and Vivian go after the diner?
(a) The beach
(b) A forest
(c) A layby
(d) Marlowe's apartment

6. Why does Carmen not kill Marlowe when she shoots at him?
(a) She is a bad aim
(b) The gun is loaded with blanks
(c) Marlowe is wearing armor
(d) She has a seizure

7. What color hair does Eddie's wife have?
(a) Blonde
(b) Brown
(c) White
(d) Black

8. What does Marlowe say he will destroy?
(a) Eddie Mars
(b) Carmen's gun
(c) Police evidence
(d) The photographs

9. What is Mona Grant's profession?
(a) Comedian
(b) Artist
(c) Actress
(d) Singer

10. Who does Vivian worry about in this chapter?
(a) Her father and sister
(b) Rusty
(c) Eddie Mars
(d) Marlowe

11. What does Marlow hide behind?
(a) A car
(b) A bench
(c) A wall
(d) A tree

12. Who calls Marlowe in this chapter?
(a) Carmen
(b) Ohls
(c) Eddie Mars
(d) Sternwood's butler

13. What does Marlowe report to the butler?
(a) He has found the pictures.
(b) He does not want to work on the case
(c) He needs more money
(d) He has found Rusty

14. What does Cyanide smell like?
(a) Bitter almonds
(b) Car fumes
(c) Prostitute's perfume
(d) Rose hips

15. Where is Vivian in this chapter?
(a) Marlowe's apartment
(b) Marlowe's office
(c) The roulette table
(d) Eddie's apartment

Short Answer Questions

1. What king does Marlowe refer to in this chapter?

2. Who does Canino want to find?

3. How many people are waiting for Marlowe?

4. Whose visit does Marlowe leave out of his story?

5. Who phones Marlowe in this chapter?

(see the answer keys)

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