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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The following morning, a Saturday, Margery opens a package that arrives in the mail to discover what?

2. When does Margery receive a phone call?

3. Where has Race seen Vic?

4. What does Dolly say is common knowledge about her mother?

5. What does Trask then do to Spenser?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Henry learn about Vic at Race's Faces?

2. What does Margery request of Spenser? What is his response?

3. Why does Margery call Spenser?

4. What does Spenser learn about Maguire's death?

5. What happens the next day when Spenser goes to Vic's home?

6. What happens at the Odds' End bar?

7. What happens when Spenser arrives at the Bartletts' home?

8. What is discovered in Kevin's secret room in the barn?

9. What happens when Spenser arrives at Vic's?

10. How does Spenser know there are no signs of a break in?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Spenser interrogates Dr. Croft.

Part 1) Why does he interrogate him? How does Dr. Croft respond to this?

Part 2) How does his response affect his life?

Part 3) Why might Dr. Croft have been involved in the activity about which Spenser interrogates him? How does he benefit from it?

Essay Topic 2

Spenser has a sense of humor and is very sarcastic.

Part 1) Describe Spenser's sense of humor and sarcasm. How does it affect his relationships?

Part 2) How does his humor and sarcasm help him in his investigative work?

Part 3) How does this humor and sarcasm affect the reader, one's engagement in the book? Why?

Essay Topic 3

This case ends with the return of Kevin.

Part 1) What might be Kevin's fate now that it is learned he was not kidnapped as first thought?

Part 2) What will happen to Vic? Will Kevin try to help him? Why or why not?

Part 3) What might come of the other characters in the book, now that the case is over?

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