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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 through 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marlowe prefer to do rather than go with Anne Riordan at the end of Chapter 11?
(a) Go by himself to the police station.
(b) Search for Marlowe's killers.
(c) Go to the doctor for his head injury.
(d) Go home to sleep.

2. What object does a woman point at Marlowe's stomach at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) A syringe filled with poison.
(b) A gun.
(c) An antique sword.
(d) A knife.

3. Where is Marlowe at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) In jail.
(b) Lying on the ground.
(c) At the airport.
(d) On Mrs. Grayle's sofa.

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

5. In Chapter 2, whom does Moose Malloy demand to see at Florian's?
(a) A waiter named Ernest.
(b) A piano player named Dave.
(c) A singer named Louise.
(d) Mr. Montgomery, the night club's manager.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fee does Marlowe demand for accepting the job Lindsay Marriott offers him?

2. At the end of Chapter 12, who tells Marlowe to leave Marriott's murder investigation to the police?

3. How long has Malloy been in prison?

4. What does Anne Riordan suspect about the three mysterious Russian cigarettes?

5. What does Jessie Florian try to hide from Marlowe in Chapter 5 until Marlowe pulls it out of the trunk in her bedroom?

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