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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marlowe bathe his sore head with at the beginning of Chapter 13?
(a) Iced water.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Rubbing alcohol.
(d) Iced tea.

2. What does Marlowe suggest that Jules Amthor get Second Planting to do?
(a) Take a bath.
(b) Search for Moose Malloy.
(c) Become a movie actor.
(d) Study martial arts.

3. Which of the following statements does not describe what Marlowe sees as he approaches Jessie Florian's home?
(a) A line of yellowish half-washed clothes on a rusty wire.
(b) A neatly painted white picket fence and white house.
(c) A dried-out brown house with a dried-out brown lawn.
(d) Last year's unpruned poinsettias against the cracked wall.

4. In Chapter 11, where does Marlowe find three mysterious Russian cigarettes?
(a) In Marriott's pockets.
(b) In his office.
(c) In his own coat pocket.
(d) In Marriott's car.

5. What does Anne Riordan suspect about the three mysterious Russian cigarettes?
(a) They contain the murderer's fingerprints.
(b) Finding where they were bought will lead to the killer.
(c) They're marijuana rather than tobacco.
(d) They contain the murderer's DNA.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements does not describe Mrs. Jules Amthor?

2. How does Marlowe get into Jessie Florian's house at the beginning of Chapter 17?

3. In the photo that Marlowe gives Lieutenant of Little Velma, what kind of costume is Velma wearing?

4. By whom does Marlowe tell Jessie Florian he has been hired to find Little Velma?

5. Who does Jessie Florian claim has died of a chest cold in Dalhart, Texas?

(see the answer key)

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