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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 trhough 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator enter the building in Chapter 3?
(a) By breaking in.
(b) By walking in through the open front door.
(c) By knocking on the door and acting like a census taker.
(d) By ringing the bell and posing as a messenger.

2. Who is the narrator?
(a) Paul Warsol.
(b) Hawkeye Anderson.
(c) Patty and Susan.
(d) Mr. Spenser.

3. Who hires the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Buddy.
(b) Hawk.
(c) Susan Silverman.
(d) Patty Giacomin.

4. What did Paul say about his own father and cooking?
(a) That Mel cooked all the time.
(b) That Mel said that he would teach Paul to cook one day.
(c) That he would like to learn.
(d) That he never did it, and that he said it was for girls.

5. Who is inside the building that the narrator enters in Chapter 3?
(a) Hawk and Henry.
(b) Spenser and Susan Silverman.
(c) Mel Giacomin and Elaine Brooks.
(d) Patty Giacomin and Paul Giacomin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what is Patty's first response to Spenser and Paul's entrance?

2. Who is Mel Giacomin?

3. Who was at home with Patty when Spenser and Paul arrived in Chapter 5?

4. In Chapter 10, Spenser tells Patty that he can put her in touch with the feminist writer, Rachel Wallace. Patty responds that feminist theory is all well and good on paper, but that it is not successful in reality. Spenser asks her what the term, successful means in the "real world"; and Patty's response is:

5. In Chapter 7, what does Patty tell Spenser has happened to Paul?

(see the answer key)

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