SparkNotes: The Big Sleep: Quiz

Where do General Sternwood and Marlowe conduct their first meeting?

(A) In the hallway of the Sternwood mansion

(B) By the Sternwood pool

(C) In the Sternwood greenhouse

(D) In Vivian Sternwood's room

In what kind of business was General Sternwood formerly involved?

(A) Pornography

(B) Oil

(C) Fine art dealing

(D) Gardening

Who kills Owen Taylor?

(A) Eddie Mars

(B) Carol Lundgren

(C) Owen Taylor

(D) It is unknown

What kind of business does Geiger run?

(A) A smut shop

(B) A rare book business

(C) An underground casino

(D) An oil refinery

What seemingly unrelated piece of information does General Sternwood ring up that arouses Marlowe's curiosity?

(A) That he has an illegitimate son

(B) That he runs a casino on the side

(C) That he has a lover named Carol

(D) That his son-in-law, Rusty Regan, has disappeared

Why does Carmen Sternwood initially have so little to say about Geiger's murder?

(A) Because she murdered him

(B) Because she is afraid to speak about it

(C) Because she is drugged senseless

(D) Because she is protecting her lover

Why does Owen Taylor murder Geiger?

(A) Because he is in love with Carmen

(B) Because he is in love with Carol

(C) Because he wants to avenge the death of Rusty Regan

(D) Because Norris, the butler, tells him to do it

Who does Marlowe tell he is being followed by a gray Plymouth?

(A) Carmen

(B) Vivian

(C) Eddie Mars

(D) General Sternwood

What does Marlowe call Mona?

(A) Babe

(B) Mrs. Mars

(C) Mona

(D) Silver-Wig

With what does Marlowe load Carmen's gun?

(A) One bullet

(B) Five bullets

(C) Blanks

(D) Nothing

Why does Eddie Mars claim he has the keys to Geiger's house when he discovers Carmen and Marlowe inside?

(A) He owns the house and Geiger is his tenant

(B) He tells them it is none of their business

(C) He never tells them, but instead confesses to the murder

(D) He says he does not have the key, and that the door was open

Why does the name Joe Brody ring a bell to Marlowe when it comes up in his investigation?

(A) Because Brody was an ex-cop

(B) Because Geiger had picture of Brody in his house

(C) Because Sternwood had mentioned having to pay Brody off because of an earlier blackmail

(D) Because Vivian showed Marlowe a picture of Brody

Who is Agnes Lozelle?

(A) The front desk clerk at Geiger's place of business

(B) The woman who joins forces with Brody

(C) The woman who joins forces with Harry Jones

(D) All of the above

What is wrong with Carmen Sternwood?

(A) She loves Eddie Mars

(B) She loves Geiger

(C) She is not really the General's daughter

(D) She is emotionally and mentally imbalanced

Where is Rusty Regan?

(A) Dead at the bottom of an empty oil pump

(B) In the oil business in Nevada

(C) With Mona Mars

(D) Hiding under an assumed name

What is Vivian doing at Eddie Mars's Cypress Club on the day Marlowe pays Mars a visit?

(A) Singing

(B) Gambling

(C) Kissing Eddie Mars

(D) Looking for her sister, Carmen

Who is in the gray Plymouth Sedan that is following Marlowe?

(A) Eddie Mars

(B) Vivian Sternwood

(C) Norris

(D) Harry Jones

How does Harry Jones die?

(A) Canino shoots him

(B) Canino poisons him

(C) Eddie Mars shoots him

(D) His gray Plymouth sedan plummets off the Lido pier

How much does Norris know of what goes on in the Sternwood mansion?

(A) Nothing

(B) He writes the checks and, therefore, knows all only about the financial affairs of the household and nothing else

(C) He knows everything that goes on in the house

(D) He knows only who killed Geiger

Whom does Marlowe find in his bed one evening?

(A) Agnes Lozelle

(B) Carmen Sternwood

(C) Vivian Sternwood

(D) Carol Lundgren

What is Carmen Sternwood's most visible bad habit?

(A) She sucks her thumb

(B) She picks her nose

(C) She chews with her mouth open

(D) She bites her nails

What is the name of Eddie Mars's gunman?

(A) Reilly

(B) Canino

(C) Geiger

(D) Marlowe

Why does Carmen scream in Geiger's house?

(A) Because she witnesses a murder

(B) Because the flashbulb of a camera goes off

(C) Because she is being raped

(D) Because she is calling for help

What piece of art does Marlowe notice in the Sternwood's mansion?

(A) The wood engraved staircase

(B) The stained glass panel of a knight rescuing a lady

(C) A set of carved wooden elephants

(D) A Japanese watercolor

Who is the last person Marlowe thinks of before the book ends?

(A) Mona Grant

(B) Vivian Sternwood

(C) General Sternwood

(D) Veronica Lake