1. What is Spenser's response when Paul asks him why he thinks that Paul's parents say everything is for girls?
(a) Because Paul's parents are small-minded people in a big world.
(b) Because they do not really care, and are just telling Paul that to bring his inquisitiveness to an end.
(c) Because they do not know any better; because they do not know who they are, or how to find outp or what a good person is, or how to find out. So they rely on categories.
(d) Because they are afraid to admit what they like because other people may think they are weak.

2. What does Paul ask Spenser about red and gray squirrels?
(a) Which ones are meaner.
(b) Which ones live around the cabin.
(c) Which ones are friendlier.
(d) What the difference is between the two of them.

3. What does Paul's dad, Mel say about the ballet?
(a) That it is for girls.
(b) That it is boring.
(c) That it is not art.
(d) That it is embarassing.

4. What does Spenser find out while away with Susan and Paul in Chapter 29?
(a) That Paul's real father lives in Europe.
(b) That Patty Giacomin goes to the hotel once a month, gets drunk, and has sex with a stranger whom she picks up at the bar.
(c) That the lawyer who drew up the will lived in Chicago.
(d) That the broker who wrote the deed lived in New York.

5. What option does Spenser give Paul in Chapter 24?
(a) To stay with Susan instead of going with him.
(b) To go back home to his parents.
(c) To live with him in the cabin.
(d) To go away to school in London.