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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 37-41.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Montecito?
(a) A Bay City museum.
(b) The Grayle mansion.
(c) Lindsay Marriott's estate.
(d) One of Laird Burnette's gambling boats.

2. At the end of Chapter 18, where do Marlowe and Mrs. Grayle agree to meet at ten o'clock that night?
(a) Marlowe's office.
(b) Florian's.
(c) The Hotel Sans Souci.
(d) The Belevedere Club.

3. Who is Sergeant Galbraith?
(a) Jules Amthor's brother.
(b) An army officer who knows Moose Malloy.
(c) The Bay City cop who commits Marlowe to the sanitarium.
(d) A cop investigating Jessie Florian's murder.

4. How does Marlowe get into Jessie Florian's house at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) He lets himself into the unlocked house.
(b) Mrs. Morrison lets him in with a spare key.
(c) Moose Malloy lets him into the house.
(d) He breaks in through an open window.

5. Who does Jessie Florian claim has died of a chest cold in Dalhart, Texas?
(a) The new owner of Florian's.
(b) Mike Florian.
(c) Little Velma.
(d) Moose Malloy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sergeant Galbraith tell Marlowe in Chapter 33 that he thought Dr. Sonderborg was doing in his house?

2. Who does Marlowe punch in the nose at the beginning of Chapter 22?

3. What nickname does Marlowe give the big man escorting him out of Amthor's house?

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

5. Why is Lieutenant Nulty bitter?

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