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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Andy and Degarmo confront each other?

2. What time do Degarmo and Marlowe arrive at Miss Fromsett's apartment building, according to the clerk's wristwatch?

3. Where does Degarmo write down the information Marlowe gives about his client?

4. Where is Derace Kingsley when Degarmo and Marlowe get to the cabin?

5. What prevents Degarmo from getting away?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Marlowe say about Muriel's explanation of why she went back to Lavery's the morning after the murder?

2. How does the desk sergeant annoy Degarmo?

3. How does Degarmo react to Marlowe mentioning the idea that Almore murdered his wife and then used his influence to get it hushed up?

4. After Patton shoots at Degarmo, what does Degarmo do?

5. Where and in what condition do Marlowe and Patton find the car that Degarmo escaped in?

6. What is Mrs. Talley's attitude?

7. How does Grayson describe Dr. Almore's practice?

8. How does Marlowe get out of the apartment at the Granada?

9. How does Grayson describe Mr. Talley?

10. What does Dobbs say he's going to charge Marlowe with?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Marlowe learns the truth through investigation and interviewing. Discuss investigation and interviewing in the novel.

1) What techniques does Marlowe use to investigate? How does he approach interviewing people?

2) How do Marlowe's interviewing techniques vary in different situations, with different people?

3) What information is Marlowe able to acquire by talking to people? What makes his interviews effective or ineffective?

Essay Topic 2

As a crime novel, The Lady in the Lake is concerned with justice. Discuss justice in the novel.

1) What does Marlowe consider justice to be?

2) How does the law deliver justice, or does it? What is the relationship between the law and justice?

3) Does the novel deliver justice to its characters? In what ways?

Essay Topic 3

Through Marlowe's association with crime, he naturally is associated with police and law enforcers. Discuss the police and law enforcers in the novel.

1) What different sides are there to police and law enforcement in the novel, both positive and negative?

2) How does Marlowe relate to the police in the novel? What is his relationship with law enforcement like?

3) Discuss specific officers of the law in the novel, including Patton, Degarmo, Webber, and uniformed police Marlowe deals with. How do they perceive their jobs? How do they deal with the multifaceted nature of law enforcement?

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