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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. In Chapter 3, who else is in the house besides the narrator and the two people in the living room?
(a) Buddy Hartman.
(b) Paul Giacomin.
(c) Mel Giacomin's cleaning lady.
(d) Shelley.

2. What kind of car does Elaine Brooks drive?
(a) A black Buick Regal.
(b) A Jaguar ZX2.
(c) A red MGB with a gold luggage rack.
(d) A gold LaCrosse.

3. In Chapter 9, what do Paul and Spenser decide to do for dessert?
(a) Bake a cake together.
(b) Go to a nearby diner for pie.
(c) Buy some cookies at the corner store.
(d) Go to Baskin-Robbins for ice cream.

4. In Chapter 7, what does Patty tell Spenser has happened to Paul?
(a) That the person whom she hired to babysit Paul while she was out, turned out to be one of Mel's henchmen who tried to kidnap Paul.
(b) That his father came to Paul's school and tried to take him out of class.
(c) That a strange man approached Paul on his way home from school, and told him that his father wanted to see him. When Paul would not go with him, the man got out of his car and started to chase him.
(d) That Paul tried to run away to his father's house.

5. What does Patty want Spenser to do in Chapter 7?
(a) To help her find her sister.
(b) To retrieve Paul again.
(c) To deliver a message to Mel.
(d) To go to her house in Lexington.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say to the woman who answers the door in Chapter 2?

2. How does the narrator get into room 315?

3. Besides the narrator, who else was evicted from the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston?

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

5. What is Patty's reasoning for being married?

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