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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 compare felony cells to?

2. What is Peter's job?

3. What does Marlowe say he has not had for three days?

4. Who does Terry say is scared?

5. What does Terry say is the only thing he has left?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Marlowe think that jail is not too bad?

2. What does Verringer tell Marlowe in this section?

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

4. Describe the confrontation between Earl and Roger in the fourth section.

5. What does Marlowe learn about Terry and Sylvia in this section?

6. Why does Marlowe not want to know everything when Terry comes to his house crying?

7. How does Menendez know Terry?

8. Describe Marlowe's time at the police station.

9. How does Marlowe think the case will pan out?

10. How does Marlowe antagonize Mr. Grenz in the second section?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Why do the students think Marlowe is so indifferent about everyone's death apart from Terry's? What does Marlowe's attitude suggest about his attitude towards his own life? In what way does Chandler suggest that Marlowe's attitude is shared with the other characters in the book? What does Chandler's representation of death say about American society in the Fifties?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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