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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Marlowe begins to hallucinate in Chapter 25, what does he realize?
(a) He has suffered a concussion.
(b) He drank too much whiskey at Amthor's, and he's drunk.
(c) He has lost his mind.
(d) He has been drugged.

2. At the end of Chapter 21, what happens after Marlowe says he thinks Amthor and Marriott worked together to blackmail women?
(a) Mrs. Amthor appears with a gun in her hand.
(b) Amthor says Second Planting is the real blackmailer.
(c) The lights go out, and Marlowe is attacked in the dark.
(d) Amthor laughs and admits Marlowe is right.

3. How does Marlowe escape from his room in Chapter 26?
(a) He dons a white coat and pretends he's a doctor to escape.
(b) He ambushes an attendant and steals a set of keys.
(c) He climbs out the window and goes down the fire escape.
(d) He starts a fire and escapes when firemen come to free him.

4. Who has taken over the ownership and patronage of Florian's since Malloy's last visit there?
(a) African Americans.
(b) Malloy's ex-wife and her family.
(c) An Italian gang.
(d) An Irish gang.

5. What does Anne Riordan suspect about the three mysterious Russian cigarettes?
(a) They contain the murderer's fingerprints.
(b) They're marijuana rather than tobacco.
(c) They contain the murderer's DNA.
(d) Finding where they were bought will lead to the killer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on the white table in the middle of the room into which Mrs. Amthor conducts Marlowe in Chapter 21?

2. For what does Jules Amthor say he has treated Mrs. Grayle?

3. What does Malloy do to the bouncer at Florian's in Chapter 2?

4. Marlowe thinks the men escorting him out of Amthor's house are______________.

5. How old is Anne Riordan?

(see the answer key)

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