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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20 through 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Spenser need to learn more than anything else if he is to survive?
(a) How to dress.
(b) Autonomy.
(c) How to please others.
(d) How to make his parents happy.

2. What does Spenser say about too much positivity in Chapter 20?
(a) That not having enough positivity can ruin a person's life.
(b) That too much positivity is a sign that the person with the outlook is either scared or stupid; or both.
(c) That there is no such thing as too much positivity in today's world.
(d) That too much positivity is for those who do not understand their surroundings.

3. What is Spenser's solution to the problem discussed in Chapter 23?
(a) To blackmail Paul's parents.
(b) There is no solution.
(c) To use Elaine to find Mel.
(d) To look into boarding schools.

4. What book is Spenser reading in Chapter 7?
(a) Of Mice and Men.
(b) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
(c) A Distant Mirror.
(d) To Kill a Mockingbird.

5. What does Spenser tell Paul about fighting in a "regular" fight?
(a) That anybody can beat anybody in a fight without rules.
(b) That fighting is only for the strong-willed.
(c) That the strongest fighter always wins.
(d) That the smartest fighter always wins.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 26, where do Paul and Spenser stay the first night?

2. What does Spenser do for dinner the first night that Patty is away in New York?

3. Which one of the men who enter Patty's house in Chapter 11 does Spenser know?

4. In Chapter 8, when he returned after his respite after breakfast, what does Patty ask him?

5. While Spenser and Paul are working in Chapter 22, who goes to the cabin?

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