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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marlowe eat at the beginning of Chapter 28?
(a) A steak and baked potato with a salad.
(b) A large breakfast of boiled eggs, toast, and coffee.
(c) A ham and swiss cheese sandwich.
(d) Apple pie and ice cream.

2. Who tells Marlowe to avoid the Royal Crown?
(a) Lieutenant Randall.
(b) Mr. Grayle.
(c) Anne Riordan.
(d) The hot dog vendor.

3. What transportation does Marlowe initially take to the Montecito in Chapter 35?
(a) A water taxi.
(b) A plane.
(c) A train.
(d) A bus.

4. What evidence confirms Marlowe's suspicions about why he is hallucinating?
(a) There are needle marks on his arm.
(b) His head aches, and there's a big knot on his forehead.
(c) He finds an empty whiskey bottle in his room.
(d) He has had a similar nervous breakdown before.

5. How does Marlowe find Moose Malloy at the beginning of Chapter 39?
(a) Marlowe spots Moose at the bingo hall in Bay City.
(b) Moose lets himself into Marlowe's apartment.
(c) Marlowe spots Moose gambling on Laird Brunette's boat.
(d) Mrs. Morrison brings Moose to Marlowe.

6. At the end of Chapter 28, to where does Marlowe ask Anne to drive him?
(a) The police station.
(b) His office.
(c) A taxi stand.
(d) His apartment.

7. Whose appendix bursts in Chapter 33?
(a) Marlowe's.
(b) Moose Malloy's.
(c) Captain Blane's.
(d) Anne Riordan's.

8. What color are the walls, ceiling, and rugs in the room into which Mrs. Amthor conducts Marlowe in Chapter 21?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Purple.
(d) Red.

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

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

11. In Chapter 31, what kind of insect does Marlowe see crawling across Lieutenant Randall's desk?
(a) A black bug with a pink head.
(b) A wasp.
(c) A spider.
(d) An ant.

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

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

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

15. At the beginning of Chapter 29, how long has Lieutenant Randall been searching for Marlowe?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) A week.
(c) Two days.
(d) Five hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements does not describe the place in which Marlowe finds himself at the beginning of Chapter 25?

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

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

4. Which police officer does Marlowe tell John Wax he wants to use as muscle?

5. Into what building does Red follow Marlowe in Chapter 35?

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