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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. How does Phyllis contact Walter during this time?
(a) Coded letters
(b) Calls from pay phones
(c) Messengers
(d) Telegrams

2. Who else is in the hospital room?
(a) Phyllis
(b) Lola
(c) Keyes
(d) Nettie

3. What is the one thing that Keyes cannot understand?
(a) Why some people drink coffee black
(b) Why Walter was in the park at that hour
(c) What did Walter know that would make Lola and Mr. Sanchetti shoot him
(d) What Lola ever saw in Walter

4. Who does Walter have to meet with when he gets to the office?
(a) Mr. Keyes
(b) Mr. Johnson
(c) Mr. Norton
(d) Mr. Hall

5. What does Walter think will happen at Mazatlan?
(a) They will get married
(b) They will be arrested
(c) They will go snorkeling
(d) They will go sightseeing

Short Answer Questions

1. What do both Walter and Phyllis agree on?

2. Why is Keyes excited now?

3. What action does Phyllis take next?

4. What does the nurse give Walter?

5. What does Keyes think about the beneficiary in an accident case like this one?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Walter's secretary, Nettie, call him at home that morning?

2. What are the preliminary investigative results about the case?

3. What realization does Walter come to when he sees Phyllis on board?

4. What precipitates Walter's plan to kill Phyllis?

5. What is the news about the murder in the paper the next morning?

6. What shock does Walter get on his second day at sea?

7. Describe Lola's demeanor when she visits Walter at his office a week later.

8. What does Lola tell Walter about Sachetti that makes him suspicious?

9. How does Walter's wish to marry Lola show his suspended state of reality?

10. What is Keyes' position on the accident?

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