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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mr. Sanchetti's current situation?
(a) He doesn't have his degree and needs money
(b) He has just landed a great entry level job
(c) He has just finished his engineering degree
(d) He has inherited money from his father

2. Whose efforts got Walter to the hospital?
(a) Lola
(b) Mr. Sanchetti
(c) Keyes
(d) Phyllis

3. What is Walter's plan?
(a) Tell Keyes that Mr. Sanchetti killed Mr. Nirdlinger
(b) Take Lola and leave the country
(c) Steal Mr. Sanchetti's car and send it over a cliff with Phyllis in it
(d) Tell the police that Mr. Sanchetti killed Mr. Nirdlinger

4. What does Lola tell Walter?
(a) She never loved her father
(b) She knows about Walter's role in the murder
(c) She is moving out of town
(d) She has the same feeling she had when her mother died

5. What does Lola glean from a conversation she hears between Phyllis and Mr. Sanchetti?
(a) Mr. Sanchetti is going to marry Phyllis
(b) Mr. Sanchetti was not involved in the murder
(c) Mr. Sanchetti still loves Lola
(d) Mr. Sanchetti killed her father

6. Who does not believe that Nirdlinger committed suicide?
(a) Phyllis
(b) Lola
(c) Walter
(d) Keyes

7. What does Walter say is the only reason he has confessed to Nirdlinger's murder?
(a) So the police won't beat Lola
(b) So he can die with a clear conscience
(c) So Phyllis will be punished too
(d) So Lola will love him again

8. What does Walter see while he waits for Phyllis in a grove?
(a) Lovers in an embrace
(b) Police patrolling
(c) Some vagrants
(d) A flash of light

9. What does Walter fantasize about?
(a) Marrying Nettie
(b) Marrying Julie
(c) Marrying Phyllis
(d) Marrying Lola

10. What does Keyes tell Walter about Lola?
(a) She has admitted to the murders of her father and mother
(b) She thought Mr. Sanchetti shot Walter out of jealousy
(c) She has killed Phyllis
(d) She has killed Mr. Sanchetti

11. How is Nirdlinger's death reported?
(a) As an accident
(b) As a murder
(c) As a mob hit
(d) As a suicide

12. Why had Mr. Sanchetti suspected Phyllis was up to something the night his car was stolen?
(a) She got a new hairstyle
(b) She had been asking detailed questions about Griffith Park
(c) She bought a one-way airline ticket
(d) She bought a new wardrobe

13. What does Phyllis say is printed in the ship's paper?
(a) The ship's itinerary
(b) News of Walter's trip
(c) Walter and Lola's engagement picture
(d) News of Lola and Mr. Sachetti's marriage

14. What does Lola tell Walter when he takes her out to dinner?
(a) She is going to grief counseling
(b) She is ready to recant what she had told him about Phyllis' part in her mother's death
(c) She needs sleeping pills to get any rest
(d) She is going to the police with the information she has

15. Who rules the death an accident?
(a) The insurance investigators
(b) The F.B.I.
(c) The coroner
(d) The police detectives

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Walter and Phyllis?

2. What happens to Walter while waiting in Mr. Sanchetti's car?

3. What does Walter tell Keyes when he fears for Lola's safety?

4. What will Keyes give to Walter?

5. Who had been Lola's mother's companion at the time of her death?

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