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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 33-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jessie Florian try to hide from Marlowe in Chapter 5 until Marlowe pulls it out of the trunk in her bedroom?
(a) A letter with Velma's current address on it.
(b) A photo of a woman Marlowe believes is Velma Valento.
(c) A letter revealing who framed Malloy for the bank robbery.
(d) The gun Malloy used to shoot Mr. Montgomery.

2. Who tells Lieutenant Randall about Sam Montgomery's murder at Florian's?
(a) Marlowe.
(b) Chief Wax.
(c) Lieutenant Nulty.
(d) Anne Riordan.

3. Which of the following statements does not describe Red?
(a) Wearing dirty sneakers and tarry pants.
(b) Violet eyes.
(c) Skin soft as silk.
(d) Short black hair and tanned skin.

4. Who is the beak-nosed man who questions Marlowe about Red in Chapter 35?
(a) One of Moose Malloy's friends.
(b) One of Laird Burnette's thugs.
(c) Officer Olson of the Bay City police force.
(d) One of Jules Amthor's thugs.

5. Which of the following statements does not describe what Marlowe sees as he approaches Jessie Florian's home?
(a) Last year's unpruned poinsettias against the cracked wall.
(b) A dried-out brown house with a dried-out brown lawn.
(c) A line of yellowish half-washed clothes on a rusty wire.
(d) A neatly painted white picket fence and white house.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money do the thieves want as ransom for the stolen item?

2. Whom does Moose Malloy toss out of Florian's in Chapter 1?

3. In Chapter 35, why does Marlowe initially fail to get inside the Montecito?

4. How is Jessie Florian murdered?

5. What does Marlowe prefer to do rather than go with Anne Riordan at the end of Chapter 11?

(see the answer key)

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