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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. In Chapter 27, to whose home does Marlowe walk on foot?
(a) Anne Riordan's.
(b) Mrs. Grayle's.
(c) Lieutenant Randall's.
(d) Jessie Florian's.

2. What does Anne Riordan say she wants from Marlowe at the end of Chapter 40?
(a) A kiss.
(b) Fifty dollars for helping him solve his case.
(c) An interview for her newspaper.
(d) A proposal of marriage.

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

4. Who does Moose Malloy realize must have framed him for the bank robbery eight years earlier?
(a) Laird Brunette.
(b) Jules Amthor.
(c) Lindsay Marriott.
(d) Mrs. Grayle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sergeant Galbraith?

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

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

4. Who tries to talk Marlowe into returning to his room in Chapter 27?

5. What is the real name of the big cop who escorts Marlowe out of Jules Amthor's house and to whom Marlowe assigns a nickname?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Marlowe see reading a newspaper in Chapter 26, and what does this person's presence indicate about Amthor and the two policemen who escorted Marlowe out of Amthor's house?

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

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

4. Discuss Marlowe's encounter with Dr. Sonderborg in Chapter 27 and what it indicates about Dr. Sonderborg's legitimacy as a physician.

5. Who murders Moose Malloy in Chapter 39, and what is the motivation for the killing?

6. What is Raymond Chandler saying about American literature through Marlowe's references to Hemingway in Chapter 24?

7. Discuss Marlowe's meeting with Chief Wax in Chapter 32 and what it indicates about both the chief and the Bay City police department.

8. In Chapter 33, what explanation does Sergeant Galbraith give for putting Marlowe into Sonderborg's hospital?

9. 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?

10. What does the fact that the two rough-looking characters tending to Marlowe in Chapter 23 and 24 are policeman indicate about the Bay City police force?

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