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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are Spenser's potential clients?
(a) The Bartletts.
(b) The Baileys.
(c) The Bartons.
(d) The Burtons.

2. Of what is there a lot around the house?
(a) Trash cans.
(b) Junk piled up.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Trees.

3. When asked if Kevin had ever run away before, what does Margery say?
(a) Probably.
(b) Yes.
(c) Maybe.
(d) No.

4. Who says the man in the woods lost sight of the vehicle's driver?
(a) Trask.
(b) Spenser.
(c) Healy.
(d) Tracy.

5. Healy and Spenser arrive at the stable and meet who?
(a) An instructor.
(b) The owner.
(c) A rider.
(d) The manager.

6. What does Spenser learn that the Bartletts have received?
(a) A threatening phone call from an anonymous caller.
(b) A phone call from Kevin.
(c) A helpful tip by a neighbor.
(d) A ransom note by mail.

7. What does Spenser quickly learn about horses?
(a) They are very intelligent.
(b) They are very dangerous.
(c) They are lazy.
(d) They are not overly intelligent.

8. What does Healy tell Spenser they have to do?
(a) Think.
(b) Work.
(c) Argue.
(d) Sleep.

9. Spenser makes the final decision to do what?
(a) Stake out the school.
(b) Follow the kidnappers.
(c) Stake out the forest.
(d) Stake out the pickup site.

10. Who spends a lot of time watching television?
(a) Vincent.
(b) Vic.
(c) Victor.
(d) Vinnie.

11. What does the driver of this vehicle do?
(a) He slows and grabs the backpack from Margery.
(b) He grabs Margery and the backpack.
(c) He drives slowly past Margery.
(d) He drives by quickly.

12. What does Susan Silverman say about Kevin's identity role?
(a) It is very healthy.
(b) It is somewhat unusual.
(c) It is perfectly normal.
(d) It is screwed up.

13. In a fit of temper, what does Spenser do?
(a) He chases after the vehicle.
(b) He yells at the driver.
(c) He punches a wall.
(d) He breaks his rake handle in two.

14. What is Vic?
(a) A football player.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A bodybuilder.
(d) A pro wrestler.

15. Describe Kevin's room.
(a) Very dirty.
(b) Obsessively neat.
(c) A typical teenager's room.
(d) Fairly organized.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Spenser unlike the police?

2. Of what will Margery not approve?

3. How does this man react when Spenser presses him for information?

4. When he arrives, Trask's car is there, along with what?

5. Does Kevin seem like the kind of kid who would take his pet without taking something to carry the animal in and something to feed it?

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