Final Exam Quotes & Authors

Question 1

“When I yanked Tai over backward by his fat throat, and slammed him to the floor, his guns were still barking metal;.”

Answer 1

“The House in Turk Street” Dashiell Hammett

Question 2

“He didn’t believe me. He never believed me. He went to the gallows thinking me a liar.”

Answer 2

“The House in Turk Street” Dashiell Hammett

Question 3

“The Chinese are a thorough people; if one of them carries a gun at all, he usually carries two or three or more.”

Answer 3

“The House in Turk Street” Dashiell Hammett

Question 4

“‘Well you can call it a decidedly successful operation. The Quarres and Hook dead; the bonds and I in your hands.’ ‘Not so bad,’ I admitted, ‘but will you do me a favor?’ ‘If I may.’ ‘Tell me what the hell this is all about!’ ‘All about?’ he asked. ‘Exactly! From what you people have let me overhear, I gather that you pulled some sort of job in Los Angeles that netted you a hundred thousand dollars’ worth of bonds; but i can’t remember any recent job of that size down there……….. and that’s what brought me here.”

Answer 4

“The House in Turk Street” Dashiell Hammett

Question 5

“Then I made a discovery: something had changed in the room near her! I shut my eyes and tried to picture that part of the room as it had been before the two men had clashed. Opening my eyes suddenly, I had the answer.”

Answer 5

“The House in Turk Street” Dashiell Hammett

Question 6

“Anna Halsey was about two hundred and forty pounds of middle-aged putty-faced woman in a black tailor-made suit. Her eyes were shiny black shoe buttons, her cheeks were as soft as suet and about he same color. She was sitting behind a black glass desk that looked like Napoleon’s tomb and she was smoking a cigarette in a black holder that was not quite as long as a rolled umbrella. She said: ‘I need a man.’”

Answer 6

“Trouble is My Business” Raymond Chandler

Question 7

“‘Listen,’ I told him earnestly, ‘if you want to call all the plays in this game, you can carry the ball yourself. Or you can save yourself a lot of money and hire and order taker. I have to do things my way.”

Answer 7

“Trouble is My Business” Raymond Chandler

Question 8

“Somebody was nuts. I was nuts. Everybody was nuts. None of it fitted together worth a nickel.”

Answer 8

“Trouble is My Business” Raymond Chandler

Question 9

“Nobody knows where he is. Miss Huntress doesn’t know. I don’t know. No one at any of the places where he might be knows.”

Answer 9

“Trouble is My Business” Raymond Chandler

Question 10

“The arteries stood out in Grave Digger’s swollen neck and his voice came out cotton dry…….so all that’s left is let ‘em eat one another up.”

Answer 10

“Cotton Comes to Harlem” Chester Himes

Question 11

“They were silent for a moment with the rain pouring over them, thinking about these eighty-seven families who had put down their thousand-dollar grubstakes on a dream. They knew that these families had come by their money the hard way. To many, it represented the savings of a lifetime…..”

Answer 11

“Cotton Comes to Harlem” Chester Himes

Question 12

“He then looked from one detective to another. ‘What the hell is going on today? It’s only ten o’clock in the evening and judging from the reports it’s been going on like this since morning.’ He leafed through the reports, reading charges: “Man kills his wife with an axe for burning his breakfast pork chop..man shoots another man demonstrating a recent shooting he had witnessed…..’All colored citizens,’ Coffin Ed interrupted.”

Answer 12

“Cotton Comes to Harlem” Chester Himes

Question 13

“You’re certain this bale of cotton was carried by the meat delivery truck used by the hijackers?’ Anderson said. ‘We found fibers of raw cotton in the truck. Uncle Bud finds a ball of cotton on 137th Street and sells it to the junkyard. The bale of cotton is missing. A junkyard laborer has been killed. We’re certain of that much.’ Grave Digger said……”

Answer 13

“Cotton Comes to Harlem” Chester Himes

Question 14

“Grave Digger slapped him so hard his body bent one-sided like a rubber man, and Coffin Ed slapped him back. They slapped him back and forth until his brains were addled but left no bruises….”

Answer 14

“Cotton Comes to Harlem” Chester Himes

Question 15

“Deke looked sick. He knew it was a good story. He knew if she took it to court, dressed in black, her eyes downcast in sorrow, and spoke in a halting manner-with his record-she could make it stick. She didn’t have any kind of criminal record. He could see the chair in SingSing and himself sitting in it.”

Answer 15

“Cotton Comes to Harlem” Chester Himes

Question 16

“It was Grave Digger’s first night back on duty since he had been shot up by one of Benny Mason’s hired guns in the aper resulting from the loss of a shipment of heroin……”

Answer 16

“Cotton Comes to Harlem” Chester Himes

Question 17

“Grave Digger and Coffin Ed froze. Their nostrils quivered like hound dogs on a scent. Thoughts churned through their heads like sheets of lightning.”

Answer 17

“Cotton Comes to Harlem” Chester Himes

Question 18

“At that moment they felt the same as all the other helpless black people standing in the rain.”

Answer 18

“Cotton Comes to Harlem” Chester Himes

Question 19

“Well kiss my foot if it isn’t Jones.’ Lieutenant Anderson exclaimed, rising from behind the captain’s desk to extend his hand to his ace detectives. Slang sounded as phony as a copper’s smile coming from his lips, but he warm smile lighting his thin pale face and the twinkle in his deep-set blue eyes squared it. ‘Welcome home.”

Answer 19

“Cotton Comes to Harlem” Chester Himes

Question 20

“How you reckon he figured it out?’ Coffin Ed asked. ‘Hell, man, how you think he was going to miss seeing the bale had been tampered with,’ Grave Digger said. “As much cotton as he’s handled in his lifetime.”

Answer 20

“Cotton Comes to Harlem” Chester Himes

Question 21

“The white cops looked at Coffin Ed and Gravedigger with the envious awe usually reserved for a lion tamer with a cage of big cats……”

Answer 21

“Cotton Comes to Harlem” Chester Himes

Question 22

“Bande Maximum Security Prison was the brain-child of Askia Amin, our country’s first prime minister. He had seen a model for it during an official visit to Latin America. Upon his return he signed an order for a replica to be but in a reclaimed swamp. in a location as remote from the bustle of life as possible…..Amin and his ministers become the prison’s first inmates.”

Answer 22

“Arrows of Rain” Okey Ndibe

Question 23

“‘We know an easy way to get the facts out of you,’ said the woman when the session resumed. ‘So it’s up to you.’ My back seethed with pain. My body already felt like a thing less alive than slowly dying and the suggestion of torture reached me in only an abstract, distant way…..’Let’s just give him the mosquito treatment.”

Answer 23

“Arrows of Rain” Okey Ndibe

Question 24

“‘Why have you become involved in this dangerous scheme?’ I asked Dr. Mandi as we walked to our cars. He halted and raised his head to scan the sky…..’You and Bukuru both spoke of yourselves as underdogs….”

Answer 24

“Arrows of Rain” Okey Ndibe

Question 25

“A prostitute carries two spirits within her. With one she goes out into the night. With the other she lives a normal life. …. Iyese is not a prostitute. Emilia is.”

Answer 25

“Arrows of Rain” Okey Ndibe

Question 26

On 1 October 1960 our country had groped its way through the dark waters of British womb and emerged into the world as a nation in its own right. The birth had been a long time coming. In 1884 representatives of British trading companies had taken to Berlin a map with which they persuaded their European siblings to acknowledge a large parcel of land on the western hump of Africa as a possession of British crown….”

Answer 26

“Arrows of Rain” Okey Ndibe

Question 27

“‘I asked because some of the things I read in our newspapers enraged me. Some of your colleagues talk the foolish language of the whitman. I actually read a columnist who argued that we are born thieves, there’s nothing we can do about it….”

Answer 27

“Arrows of Rain” Okey Ndibe

Question 28

“‘Is that what we fought for? So that a few of us can eat and have swollen bellies while the rest of us go to sleep with hunger ringing in our stomachs?’ …‘First we must ask ourselves, what is the identity of this space called Madia?….”

Answer 28

“Arrows of Rain” Okey Ndibe

Question 29

“Don’t fear any man, but fear lying. Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth’s debt to a story.”

Answer 29

“Arrows of Rain” Okey Ndibe

Question 30

“My grandmother was right… a voiceless man is as good as dead.”

Answer 30

“Arrows of Rain” Okey Ndibe