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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does not describe Moose Malloy?
(a) Wearing a grey sports coat with white golf ball buttons.
(b) Six foot five inches tall and not wider than a beer truck.
(c) In perpetual need of a shave.
(d) Bald with thick black spectacles.

2. At the end of chapter 28, what smells like dust and tobacco?
(a) Marlowe's office.
(b) Lieutenant Randall's office.
(c) Mr. Grayle's library.
(d) Marlowe's apartment.

3. From what job has Anne Riordan's father been fired?
(a) Chief of the Bay City police.
(b) Editor of The Chronicle.
(c) Manager of the local bank.
(d) Butler at the Grayle mansion.

4. Who does Marlowe punch in the nose at the beginning of Chapter 22?
(a) Mrs. Amthor.
(b) Second Planting.
(c) Jules Amthor.
(d) Jessie Florian.

5. Marlowe thinks the men escorting him out of Amthor's house are______________.
(a) Bay City policemen.
(b) Moose Malloy's buddies.
(c) Amthor's security guards.
(d) Mobsters.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Morrison say that Jessie Florian receives at the first of every month?

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

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

5. Which of the following people does not meet Marlowe at the Grayle mansion in Chapter 18?

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