High Life, Low Life
Questionaire
Chapter 1 – Summer in the city
 Who’s Nat Marley?
 What does he do?
 Who did he find in the street?
 Where did he find Mrs. Clayton?
 What did Annie Clayton ask Marley to do?
 Who’s Stella?
Chapter 3 – The Will
 Who’s Wilma Patterson?
 What did Mrs. Whittaker want to do?
 Why did she call Nat ´Tom´?
 Who was Tom?
 What did Nat want to do after he heard about Mrs.
Whittaker’s plans?
 Tell me about Martha that afternoon.
Chapter 5 – Inside information
 Who did Nat find at McFdden’s bar?
 What did Ed read about?
 What was curious about Tom Whittaker?
 To whom did Nat speak at Century Apartments?
 Did Mrs. Whittaker’s children visit her?
Chapter 2 – Central Park West
 What’s Central Park West?
 Why did he go to Central Park West?
 Who’s Joanna Whittaker?
 How did she find out about Nat Marley?
 How did she contact him?
 What’s the name of Mrs. Whittaker´s maid and what
can you tell me about her?
 Does Mrs. Whittaker have any family?
Chapter 4 – Beneath the city streets
 Where did Nat go?
 Who did he talk to?
 Who was with Annie at the hospital
and what was she there for?
 Where did Leona take Nat?
 What did Leona give Nat?
 What was inside the box?
 What do we know about Annie’s son?
 What did Annie ask Nat to do?
Chapter 6 – East Village
 What was Nat’s main job in this chapter?
 Who did he call and ask for help at the beginning?
 Did Cap. Oldenberg help him?
 Who else did he call?
 When he was in East Village he found information
about where Jackie worked. Who gave him this
information? And in exchange for what?
 Where did Jackie work?
 Who visited Mrs. Whittaker?
 What information did Joe give to Nat?
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 Chapter 7 – Developments
 What did Joe find out about
Wiseman Cabs?
 Who called Nat?
 How was Annie’s condition?
 Stella came up with an idea, what was it?
 Nat went to the bar to find Ed, what did he bring?
 After they discover the connection between the piece
of news and Wiseman Cabs, who did Nat phone?
 What did Nat decide in the end?
Chapter 9 – The lost son found
 Why did Charlie get scared when he
arrived?
 What did Nat warn him about?
 What was Stella doing when he arrived at the office?
 Who called? And why?
 What did Stella find out?
 How did Jackie react when he was called out?
 Who was about to help Nat? And how?
Chapter 11 – Martha Bianchi
 Why did Jackie stop working for
Wiseman?
 Did he ever try to find his mother?
 What happened after they found Jackie?
 At Century Apartments, what did Nat and Joe find
in Martha’s room?
 Where do they think she is?
 What did Nat do to help understand Martha?
Chapter 8 – A death in the family
 What happened with Nat at the
beginning?
 Who died?
 What was surprising when they entered the
apartment?
 What did the doctor say?
 Who called Charlie Whittaker?
Chapter 10 – We’re the good guys
 Why where Charlie Whittaker and Wilma Patterson
waiting at Nat’s office?
 How was the apartment?
 What did Martha’s message in the mirror say?
 What did Nat suspect?
 What about Jackie?
 Who were the good guys?
 What was your impression of Jackie before he ever
spoke? What’s your impression now?
Chapter 12 – Atlantic City
 What did Nat find when he got to Annie’s bedroom
at the hospital? What was Annie’s condition?
 Did the autopsy reveal anything about Mrs.
Whittaker’s death?
 What did Nat and Joe do?
 Where did they find Martha?
 Did Martha confess? How did she murder Mrs.
Whittaker?
 Where did Nat and Joe go after Atlantic City?
 How did Nat feel?
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 Chapter 13 – Rain
 Who was waiting at Nat’s office?
 Why was he there?
 What did Wilma Patterson want?
 What happened with Martha’s confession?
 When and where was the funeral going to be?
 What did Wilma, Nat and Jackie discover when they
opened Annie’s box?
 Who was Jackie’s father?
 Did Jackie agree to declare against wiseman?
Points for understanding
Chapter 14 – The Annie Clayton Center
 Where did Jackie, Charlie
and Betty meet?
 What was surprising about them?
 What did the letter sent by Martha read?
 What did Jackie, Betty and Charlie do?
 How did they get enough money to open the centre?
 How did Nat feel in the end?
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