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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. How does the narrator get into room 315?
(a) By posing like a pizza delivery person.
(b) By knocking on the door.
(c) By breaking in.
(d) By acting like a cabbie delivering a package.

2. In Chapter 8, when he returned after his respite after breakfast, what does Patty ask him?
(a) Whether he was married.
(b) Whether he wanted lunch.
(c) Whether he had decided if he would stay with them and take the job or not.
(d) Whether he was lonely.

3. What does Paul ask Spenser about dinner the first night that Patty is away in New York?
(a) Whether he cooked the meal.
(b) Whether he could have the tuna salad sandwich from the deli.
(c) Where he got the pizza.
(d) Whether they could go to the Chinese restarurant where he got the take-out.

4. The first morning that Paul and Spenser are in the cabin, what does Spenser set out for breakfast?
(a) Cornbread, strawberry jam, and a bowl of assorted fruit.
(b) Egg white omelettes and juice.
(c) Oatmeal, butter, sugar, and coffee.
(d) Steak and eggs.

5. What is the first question that the narrator asks the passenger in Chapter 4 after leaving the house?
(a) "Who would you rather live with, your mother or your father?
(b) "Package for Ms. Brooks. She 'ere?"
(c) "Name's Spenser with an S, like the Poet. I'm in the Boston Book. Under Tough. Heard of me?"
(d) "Smart. I like a man who gets out of a marriage gracefully. Don't you?"

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Spenser think of the visitor's request in Chapter 22?

2. In Chapter 10, Spenser says that he did not mind Patty's idea of fancy cooking; but that there was something that he did mind. What was it?

3. In Chapter 4, what reasoning does the narrator give for his career choice?

4. What does Spenser say about too much positivity in Chapter 20?

5. In Chapter 4, what does the passenger say about the narrator's profession?

(see the answer key)

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