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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Thirty - Thirty-two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do most of the Athletic Club members seem to do in the club library?
(a) Read.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Drink.
(d) Talk.

2. What does Marlowe tell Kingsley that he'll have to do?
(a) Explain why he's there and testify at an inquest.
(b) Investigate Muriel Chess's death.
(c) Stay in the mountain town at least a week.
(d) Drop the case.

3. Where is Mrs. Kingsley's body, when Marlowe awakes?
(a) On a couch.
(b) On the floor.
(c) On a bed.
(d) In the bathtub.

4. Why does Marlowe wipe the gun down with a handkerchief?
(a) He doesn't want Kingsley's fingerprints on it.
(b) He doesn't want any fingerprints on it.
(c) He doesn't want the murderer's fingerprints on it.
(d) He doesn't want his own fingerprints on it.

5. What reason does Mrs. Kingsley give for going back to Lavery's after shooting him?
(a) She decided to try to frame someone else.
(b) She wanted to geet rid of the gun.
(c) He had taken all her money.
(d) She had left behind a clue to her identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marlowe identify as Bill's biggest problem, if he killed Muriel?

2. When Marlowe awakes, what does he reek of?

3. What was the detective who Mrs. Almore's parents hired to investigate her death sent to jail for?

4. What does Mrs. Kingsley do when Marlowe tells her Bill says she made a pass at him?

5. Who found Florence Almore's body?

(see the answer key)

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