1. In Chapter 8, how long was the time period that Spenser was gone following breakfast?
(a) About two hours.
(b) All day.
(c) Four hours.
(d) About an hour and fifteen minutes.

2. Right after visiting Louis', where do Paul and Spenser go?
(a) To the Hudson River.
(b) To "Antoinette's Restaurant".
(c) To a bookstore.
(d) To the museum of fine arts.

3. What is the story that Patty recalls in Chapter 13?
(a) That Mel was waiting for her by her car in the grocery store parking lot, and that he demanded his son or he would tell the police that she had kidnapped him.
(b) That she was at the grocery store when three men with guns forced her into theri car. They drove to a pay phone in Boston, and then on to a bridge where they told her to get out and start walking.
(c) The story of how she and Mel met and got married.
(d) That while she was at the grocery store, three of Mel's henchmen threatened to kill her if she did not deliver Paul to Mel's house that afternoon.

4. At the beginning of Chapter 2, where is the narrator sitting?
(a) At police headquarters.
(b) Outside an apartment building on Hammond Pond Parkway in Chestnut Hill.
(c) The narrator's office.
(d) At the counter of a Dunkin' Donuts.

5. What does the man at the desk threaten to do in Chapter 25?
(a) To keep Paul for ransom.
(b) To kidnap Susan.
(c) To burglarize Spenser's office.
(d) To kill Spenser if he does not stay out of his business.