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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 does Marlowe go home to do?
(a) Call his mum
(b) Sleep
(c) Crack a code
(d) Feed his dog

2. What does the Kid say he does not have?
(a) Photos
(b) A camera
(c) A key
(d) A gun

3. Who owns Gieger's house?
(a) Eddie Mars
(b) Geiger
(c) General Sternwood
(d) Joe Brody

4. What year was the third edition of Ben Hur made?
(a) 1876
(b) 1860
(c) 1817
(d) 1908

5. Which character could land in prison?
(a) Carmen
(b) General Sternwood
(c) Vivian
(d) Marlowe

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ohls say one of the Sternwood's cars is located?

2. What time does a bright flash appear in the house/

3. What is the only information Mars want to know?

4. What does Vivian show Marlowe?

5. How old is Philip Marlowe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the tussle at the beginning of chapter 23.

2. How does Carmen react to Marlowe's rejection?

3. What points to the fact that Marlowe has no money?

4. How does Marlowe find out what he wants to know at the bookstore?

5. Why did the Kid move Geiger into his bedroom?

6. What does Marlowe hear when he eavesdrops on the conversation in chapter 26?

7. Why can Marlowe not catch the killer?

8. What is Vivian's alibi?

9. What does Ohl's say in his phone conversation to Marlowe?

10. What does Marlowe find in his apartment on his return home?

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