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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. Which character is bleeding in this chapter?
(a) Spade
(b) Cairo
(c) Brigid
(d) Dundy

2. How old does Spade think the man is following him?
(a) 17
(b) 16
(c) 20
(d) 18

3. What is Brigid's excuse for not telling Spade about the Falcon?
(a) It is late
(b) She wants to cook dinner
(c) She has to have a bath
(d) She doesn't know anything

4. Why does Spade say he urged Cairo and Brigid to play along with his joke?
(a) He was tired of answering questions
(b) He wanted to make them look stupid
(c) He wanted to divert their attention
(d) He wanted to see Dundy smile

5. Where does Brigid say Cairo had the young man in the shadows?
(a) Paris
(b) Cairo
(c) Constantinople
(d) London

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Spade usher Iva out of his office?

2. What theatre does Spade go to?

3. Whose apartment does Spade go to in this chapter?

4. What is the young doing?

5. What does Spade make for Brigid to eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Spade work out about Miss Wonderly in the second chapter?

2. What does Spade tell Polhaus and Dundy at the end of the seventh chapter?

3. Why does Brigid say she sought Spade's help?

4. How was the falcon made?

5. What do Spade and Tom Polhaus discuss in the second chapter?

6. How are Spade suspicions about Cairo's sexual orientation confirmed by Brigid?

7. Why does Gutman want to keep Spade on his good side?

8. Why is the fifth chapter call ed the Levantine?

9. What does horse feathers mean in terms of the eighth chapter?

10. In what way does the sixteenth chapter express the problems of its time?

(see the answer keys)

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