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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the butler offer to do for Marlowe?
(a) Call a cab
(b) make him a drink
(c) Call the police
(d) Give him money

2. Which character is dead?
(a) Vivian
(b) Carmen
(c) Marlowe
(d) Geiger

3. Who does Vivian think Marlowe is looking for?
(a) Carmen Sternwood
(b) Her mother
(c) Rusty Regan
(d) Owen Regan

4. What does the General ask Marlowe to take off?
(a) His hat
(b) His gun holster
(c) His trousers
(d) His coat

5. How many guns does Marlowe have at the end of the chapter?
(a) Two
(b) Six
(c) Four
(d) Three

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Owen's position with the Sternwood family?

2. What does Marlowe tell Brody he can frame him for?

3. Who enters Geiger's house at the end of the chapter?

4. What does Vivian show Marlowe?

5. where does Marlowe take the killer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Vivian Regan.

2. Describe what happens at the abandoned oil well in chapter 3.

3. Describe the tussle at the beginning of chapter 23.

4. What two important people do Marlowe and Ohls meet in chapter 18?

5. Describe the Sternwood house

6. Why does Canino think Marlowe is dead?

7. What will Eddie do if Marlowe does not stay in the house?

8. What suggestion are there that Geiger's store maybe a smut shop?

9. Why is the Sternwood's butler happy in chapter 21?

10. What points to the fact that Marlowe has no money?

(see the answer keys)

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