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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Fifteen - Sixteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Marlowe gets home, what does he dream about?
(a) Being stuck in a hot room with the bellhop.
(b) Being alone in the woods with a deer.
(c) Being underwater with the corpse.
(d) Being in Sheriff Patton's jail.

2. What is Marlowe's first impression of Sheriff Patton?
(a) He doesn't know what to make of the sheriff.
(b) He is antagonistic toward the sheriff.
(c) He likes the sheriff.
(d) He distrusts the sheriff.

3. What color is the lobby of the building Phillip Marlowe goes to at the beginning of the first chapter?
(a) Silver and white.
(b) Gray and yellow.
(c) Blue and green.
(d) Black and gold.

4. What does Marlowe ask the Prescott Hotel bellhop to bring?
(a) A steak dinner and beer.
(b) Extra blankets.
(c) The hotel register.
(d) Ginger ale, glasses, and ice.

5. What reason doe Bill Chess at first assume Marlowe might want to look at the cabin?
(a) Because he might be interested in architecture.
(b) Because he might want to buy it.
(c) Because he might be an inspector.
(d) Because he might find a clue to Crystal Kingsley's whereabouts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does Marlowe compare the blonde at the PBX to?

2. What does Marlowe find in Muriel Chess's bedroom that he thinks she wouldn't have left behind?

3. What evidence does Marlowe think makes Bill unlikely to have murdered his wife?

4. What icon does Marlowe have on the business card that he doesn't give to Adrienne Fromsett?

5. Where does the black Cadillac coupe come from that drives by Marlowe, as he is knocking at Lavery's door?

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