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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mrs. Morrison's relationship with Jessie Florian?
(a) She's Jessie Florian's best friend.
(b) She's Jessie Florian's cousin.
(c) She's Jessie Florian's sister.
(d) She's Jessie Florian's nosy next door neighbor.

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

3. What color is Anne Riordan's hair?
(a) Brunette.
(b) Platinum blonde.
(c) Gray.
(d) Auburn.

4. By whom does Marlowe tell Jessie Florian he has been hired to find Little Velma?
(a) The police.
(b) Velma's attorney.
(c) Velma's family.
(d) Moose Malloy.

5. Whom does Moose Malloy toss out of Florian's in Chapter 1?
(a) A night club patron.
(b) A policeman trying to arrest him.
(c) Philip Marlowe.
(d) The night club's owner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements does not describe Mrs. Jules Amthor?

2. In what office did Marlowe once work?

3. What shape is the room into which Mrs. Amthor conducts Marlowe in Chapter 21?

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

5. Which of the following is not something that Marlowe discovers is missing at the beginning of Chapter 10?

(see the answer key)

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