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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of car does Second Planting drive at the beginning of Chapter 21?
(a) A dark blue Packard sedan.
(b) A red Toyota Camry.
(c) A silver Mercedes Benz.
(d) A white Cadillac.

2. Who tries to talk Marlowe into returning to his room in Chapter 27?
(a) Jules Amthor.
(b) Second Planting.
(c) Moose Malloy.
(d) Dr. Sonderborg.

3. Who shoots Moose Malloy in Chapter 39?
(a) Lieutenant Nulty.
(b) Mrs. Grayle.
(c) Jules Amthor.
(d) Marlowe.

4. In Chapter 34, why does Marlowe approach the hot dog vendor?
(a) To buy a couple of hot dogs.
(b) For information about Laird Burnette's gambling boats.
(c) For information about Moose Malloy.
(d) For information about Little Velma.

5. Who chokes Marlowe in Chapter 22?
(a) Mrs. Amthor.
(b) Second Planting.
(c) Moose Malloy.
(d) Jules Amthor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is John Wax?

3. What does Anne Riordan say she wants from Marlowe at the end of Chapter 40?

4. Whom does Marlowe ask to get a message to Moose Malloy?

5. What does Marlowe suggest that Jules Amthor get Second Planting to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Marlowe taking a ride in another large dark-colored sedan in Chapter 21 foreshadow?

2. What does the fact that Marlowe goes to Anne Riordan's home after he escapes form Dr. Sonderborg's sanitarium indicate about his relationship with Anne?

3. Where is Moose Malloy's murderer eventually found, and what is her ultimate fate in the novel?

4. What lie does Jules Amthor tell the two policeman about Marlowe in Chapter 23, and what does the lie result in for Marlowe?

5. What does the pink and black bug, whose progress Marlowe tracks in Chapter 31, indicate about Marlowe and his life?

6. In what ways is Marlowe's relationship with Lieutenant Randall a successful collaboration with the police?

7. In Chapter 41, why does Marlowe think Mrs. Grayle has done her much-older husband a favor by dying the way she does?

8. What evidence is there in Chapter 21 that Jules Amthor is a fraud?

9. Explain the lie in which Mrs. Morrison is caught in Chapter 30 and how that lie affects her credibility.

10. What reasons does Sergeant Galbraith give Marlowe in Chapter 33 for police corruption?

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