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Between 30 and 40 words per answer

Explain why the quotations are part of the text

Give word counts in parentheses after each answer.

1. CURLY: I’ll pay the rest next trip.

2. WALSH: I don’t know. The traffic was pretty loud. I only heard one thing—apple core.

3. They pass Mulwray and a slender blonde girl in a summer dress, drifting in their rowboat, Mulwray fondly doting on the girl.

4. GARDENER: Bad for glass.

5. ESCOBAR: No, he drowned a cousin of mine with about five hundred other people. But they weren’t very important, just a bunch of dumb Mexicans living by a dam.

6. MORTY: We got water out of him, Jake.

7. IDA’S VOICE: No, Mr. Gittes. Just look in the obituary column of today’s Times.

8. PILOT: She ran off to Mexico. Rumor was she was knocked up and didn’t even know who the father was. Went there to get rid of it.

9. CROSS: I’ll double whatever your fees are and I’ll pay you ten thousand dollars if you can find Hollis’ girlfriend.

10. GITTES: What are you waiting for? Get in the car.

11. GITTES: Actually this hasn’t happened to me in some time.