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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marlowe find out about De Soto when he calls the police department?
(a) De Soto is retired.
(b) De Soto is dead.
(c) There's no one named De Soto at the department.
(d) De Soto has been arrested.

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

3. What is Lavery's first reaction when Marlowe says he's working for Kingsley?
(a) To ask Marlowe in.
(b) To shut the window and not talk with Marlowe.
(c) To tell Marlowe to meet him later, in more privacy.
(d) To phone Kingsley and find out if Marlowe's telling the truth.

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

5. How far behind in his rent does the woman say Lavery is?
(a) Four months.
(b) Five months.
(c) Three months.
(d) Two months.

6. What does Marlowe use to open the locked door?
(a) A pen.
(b) A lockpick.
(c) A nail file.
(d) A coat hanger.

7. When Kingsley leaves his office, where does he tell Miss Fromsett he is going?
(a) To get his hair cut.
(b) Home.
(c) To get a newspaper.
(d) To buy cigarettes.

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

9. What reason does Lavery give that Crystal Kingsley might have wanted to get back at him?
(a) He stole money from her.
(b) She saw him with someone else.
(c) He fought with her, and they broke up.
(d) He stood her up.

10. What does Derace Kingsley's company make?
(a) Cloth and yarn.
(b) Bottles and packaging.
(c) Automotive products.
(d) Beauty products.

11. How well does Miss Fromsett say she knew Mrs. Almore?
(a) Very well as girls, but she hadn't seen her for many years.
(b) Casually, having met her a couple of times.
(c) Very well, they were intimate friends.
(d) Not at all.

12. What communication did Kingsley receive after his wife went missing?
(a) A letter signed by her.
(b) A phone call from her.
(c) A package from her.
(d) A telegram signed by her.

13. What does Degarmo accuse Marlowe of?
(a) Casing Almore's house.
(b) Casing Lavery's house.
(c) Being a public nuissance.
(d) Loitering.

14. What is Miss Fromsett's alibi for Lavery's murder?
(a) She was at a restaurant.
(b) She was at a beauty salon.
(c) She was at the office.
(d) She was at a drug store.

15. Degarmo asks Marlowe if someone hired him. Who?
(a) "Her" husband.
(b) "Her" parents.
(c) "Her" lawyer.
(d) "Her" boyfriend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is significant about the inscription on the gold heart Marlowe finds?

2. What is on the walls of Bill Chess's bedroom?

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

4. What does Lavery tell Marlowe about Crystal Kingsley?

5. How much did Marlowe overpay for his phone call?

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