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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To which policeman does Marlowe give his account of what happened to Marriott in Chapter 12?
(a) Sergeant Galbraith.
(b) Lieutenant Randall.
(c) Lieutenant Nulty.
(d) Chief Wax.

2. Who is Stoyanoffsky?
(a) Jessie Florian's neighbor.
(b) A policeman investigating the Marriott murder.
(c) Marlowe's landlord.
(d) A man the police mistake for Moose Malloy and arrest in error.

3. Where does Marlowe find a gun in Chapter 27?
(a) On a bookcase shelf.
(b) In Mrs. Amthor's purse.
(c) One of Dr. Sonderborg's drawers.
(d) Under his mattress.

4. How old is Anne Riordan?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Thirty- five.
(c) Twenty- eight.
(d) Twenty.

5. Which of the following statements does not describe Mrs. Jules Amthor?
(a) Sleek coiled hair.
(b) Dry and dark hands.
(c) Thin and blonde.
(d) A dark, thin wasted Asiatic face.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marlowe find hidden in the mouthpieces of Lindsay Marriott's Russian cigarettes?

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

3. What does Mr. Grayle interrupt Marlowe and Mrs. Grayle doing in Chapter 18?

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

5. When Marlowe regains consciousness in Chapter 25, where does he find himself?

(see the answer key)

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