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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Malowe ask the small man in the Plymouth to do?
(a) Say hello to his boss
(b) Drive off the pier
(c) Come to his office
(d) Swallow a razor blade

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

3. What king does Marlowe refer to in this chapter?
(a) Henry the Sixth
(b) George the First
(c) Henry the Eighth
(d) Edward the Second

4. Who does Marlowe talk to at the Sternwood's house?
(a) Carmen
(b) Vivian
(c) The butler
(d) General Sternwood

5. What does Marlowe ask Carmen to do?
(a) Pour him a drink
(b) Have a shower
(c) Make some sandwiches
(d) Get dressed and leave

6. What does Marlowe phone the General to tell him?
(a) He has found the blackmailer
(b) He has found Rusty
(c) The case is closed
(d) He is giving up

7. What does Marlowe put in his pocket before he leaves?
(a) Carmen's revolver
(b) A knife
(c) Money
(d) Pictures

8. How much money does Marlowe say that Eddie wants?
(a) $250,000
(b) $500,000
(c) $1,000,000
(d) $2,000,000

9. Who does Marlowe set up a meeting with?
(a) Rusty Regan
(b) Eddie Mars
(c) Vivian Sternwood
(d) General Sternwood

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

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

12. Where do Carmen and Marlowe go to practice shooting?
(a) A forest
(b) An abandoned house
(c) Abandoned oil wells
(d) A corn field

13. What does Marlowe do when he walks past the Plymouth?
(a) Waves
(b) Puts a banana in the exhaust
(c) Shoots the tyres
(d) Opens the door

14. Where did Agnes see Mars' wife?
(a) Big Sur
(b) New York
(c) Realito
(d) New Mexico

15. Who is Taggert Wilde?
(a) District Attorney
(b) A lawyer
(c) A Judge
(d) Chief Inspector

Short Answer Questions

1. What number does the ball land on?

2. What does Carmen do when Marlowe rejects her?

3. Who told Mrs. Mars to hide out?

4. Who is Marlowe looking for?

5. Where does Captain Gregory work?

(see the answer keys)

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