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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what does Patty inform Spenser in relation to the upcoming weekend?
(a) That Mel is coming to visit Paul because it is his court-ordered visitation day.
(b) That Susan is having a grand party at the house.
(c) That he and Paul will be alone because she is going to New York.
(d) That Paul has a doctor's appointment.

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

3. What is the narrator hired to do in Chapter 1?
(a) Locate the client's missing dog, a championship-winning fox terrier.
(b) Find the client's son and bring him back home.
(c) Help the client find out about a blackmailer.
(d) Investigate the client's spouse.

4. When Spenser tells Patty that he does not want a personal relationship with her, what is her reaction?
(a) She tells him that she understands and that there are not any hard feelings.
(b) She insults herself and him, and then breaks down crying.
(c) She gets angry and demands that he leave her house.
(d) She storms off to her room and starts breaking things.

5. In Chapter 10, what does Patty do in response to Paul's comments about her thoughts on the reality of modern women?
(a) She begins to cry, and runs out of the kitchen and into her bedroom, slamming the door.
(b) She knocks over her half-full cup of coffee and its saucer off the table and onto the floor; and leaves the kitchen for her bedroom, slamming the door.
(c) Looking into her coffee cup, she says nothing,
(d) She is quiet for some time, and finally acknowledges that he has a point.

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

7. Who does Spenser call on to help him during the hostage situation in Chapter 12?
(a) Henry.
(b) Hawk.
(c) Buddy.
(d) Harold.

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

9. Who are the two men who force their way into Patty's house in Chapter 11?
(a) Spenser and Buddy.
(b) Buddy and Harold.
(c) Hawk and Harry.
(d) Henry and Harry.

10. Who is Mel Giacomin?
(a) Patty's ex-husband and Paul's father.
(b) A hoodlum Spenser knows from the past.
(c) A dentist.
(d) Spenser's client.

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

12. What book is Spenser reading in Chapter 7?
(a) A Distant Mirror.
(b) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
(c) To Kill a Mockingbird.
(d) Of Mice and Men.

13. In what city does this story take place?
(a) New York City.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Boston.
(d) Miami.

14. Who is the short, dumpy, barrel-bodied man with the ugly wig and an auburn Dynel ski cap who entered Patty's house?
(a) Hawk.
(b) Buddy.
(c) Harold.
(d) Harry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, after Patty freshens up and returns to the breakfast table, she and Spenser have a discussion. What is that discussion about?

2. Who is the narrator?

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

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. Why does Spenser not want a personal relationship with Patty?

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