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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. Where is Lola living now?
(a) In a dorm
(b) Her own apartment
(c) With a girlfriend
(d) With Mr. Sachetti

2. What does Lola confess to Walter one night?
(a) She loves Walter
(b) She has informed on Phyllis
(c) She killed her mother
(d) She still has feelings for Mr. Sachetti

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

4. What country does Walter see from the deck?
(a) Mexico
(b) Italy
(c) Bolivia
(d) Peru

5. Where does Phyllis call Walter from so they can talk privately?
(a) A pay phone
(b) A restaurant
(c) A hotel
(d) A bus station

Short Answer Questions

1. What business does Walter have as an offshoot of the insurance business?

2. What does Walter learn about Mr. Sanchetti?

3. What does Walter realize when he sees Phyllis?

4. What does Lola vow to do?

5. Walter thinks that he has been made a ___________ by Phyllis.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Walter's main concern after he tells Keyes about killing Nirdlinger?

2. What information about Sachetti does Walter learn from Lola?

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

4. What suspicious information does Lola give to Walter?

5. What surprising information does Walter get from reading the newspaper account of his accident?

6. What does Keyes tell Walter to get him to start thinking about confessing to Nirdlinger's murder?

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

8. What transpires when Keyes returns to Walter's hospital room later that night?

9. What happens on the night that Walter plans to kill Phyllis?

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

(see the answer keys)

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