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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. What does Marlowe believe is wrong with Earl?

2. When does Marlowe say he will accept payment?

3. What is Lonnie Morgan's job?

4. What letter does the doctor's name begin with?

5. What color hair does Eileen have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Menendez angry at Terry?

2. What does Lonnie say about the newspapers at the end of this section?

3. What questions does Marlowe ask Terry when they begin to see more of each other?

4. What were Marlowe's initial impressions of Terry?

5. What does Grenz say has happened to Terry?

6. Describe the confrontation between Marlowe and Menendez in the third section.

7. Why does Terry think his wife is scared?

8. Why does Eileen want to hire Marlowe?

9. What does Spencer hire Marlowe to do?

10. How does Marlowe help Terry at the end of the section?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Long Goodbye is written in the first person and with Marlowe as narrator. Why do you think Chandler chose to write the story in the first person? How do you think the meaning of the story would have changed if it were written in the third person?

Essay Topic 2

What makes Marlowe a good private eye? Is Marlowe right when he says most Private Eyes finish broke or dead? How do the students think Marlowe manages to keep afloat?

Essay Topic 3

The Long Goodbye is part of the hard-boiled crime genre.

1) What are the conventions of the genre in terms of character, language and plot?

2) In what way did Big Sleep help to set the template for similar novels? Do modern novels still use the ideas used in Big Sleep?

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