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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Walter's plan?
(a) Tell Keyes that Mr. Sanchetti killed Mr. Nirdlinger
(b) Steal Mr. Sanchetti's car and send it over a cliff with Phyllis in it
(c) Take Lola and leave the country
(d) Tell the police that Mr. Sanchetti killed Mr. Nirdlinger

2. How does Phyllis contact Walter during this time?
(a) Messengers
(b) Coded letters
(c) Telegrams
(d) Calls from pay phones

3. What does Walter have in a file at his company?
(a) A recording of Phyllis and him
(b) A key to Mr. Sanchetti's car
(c) A taped recording of Phyliss and Mr. Sanchetti
(d) A photo of Phyliss and Mr. Sanchetti together

4. Where was Lola's mother when she died?
(a) Hospital
(b) Home
(c) Cabin
(d) Interstate

5. Who rules the death an accident?
(a) The police detectives
(b) The coroner
(c) The insurance investigators
(d) The F.B.I.

6. What action does Phyllis take next?
(a) Leaves the country for good
(b) Marries her secret lover
(c) Goes on an extended vacation
(d) Has her lawyer file a suit to enforce payment

7. Who accompanies Keyes when he visits Walter later that night?
(a) Lola and Mr. Sanchetti
(b) Mr. Norton and Phyllis
(c) Phyllis and Lola
(d) Mr. Norton and two lawyers

8. What does Lola glean from a conversation she hears between Phyllis and Mr. Sanchetti?
(a) Mr. Sanchetti is going to marry Phyllis
(b) Mr. Sanchetti still loves Lola
(c) Mr. Sanchetti killed her father
(d) Mr. Sanchetti was not involved in the murder

9. What does Keyes think about the beneficiary in an accident case like this one?
(a) He/she is overwhelmed with grief
(b) He/she has probably left town for awhile
(c) He/she will probably kill again
(d) He/she is suspicious

10. What does Keyes think is the best way to catch the perpetrator of a crime like this?
(a) Surprise
(b) Persistence
(c) Intense questioning
(d) Surveillance

11. Who else is in the hospital room?
(a) Keyes
(b) Phyllis
(c) Lola
(d) Nettie

12. Where is Lola living now?
(a) With a girlfriend
(b) In a dorm
(c) Her own apartment
(d) With Mr. Sachetti

13. What does Phyllis say she'll do one night?
(a) Slip off the stern of the ship
(b) Marry Walter
(c) Join the captain at dinner
(d) Call Lola and apologize

14. What business does Walter have as an offshoot of the insurance business?
(a) Fishing equipment
(b) Gun sales
(c) Accounting
(d) Finance company

15. What does the answer to #100 want to know?
(a) The details of Nirdlinger's insurance policy
(b) Why Walter loaned money to Lola's boyfriend
(c) If Walter has ever been to Palo Alto
(d) Where Walter was last night

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits Walter at his office a week later?

2. What does Walter do with the information Lola shared with him?

3. Walter thinks that he has been made a ___________ by Phyllis.

4. Where does Phyllis call Walter from so they can talk privately?

5. What did Mr. Sanchetti witness at Griffith Park?

(see the answer keys)

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