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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 trhough 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Spenser do for dinner the first night that Patty is away in New York?
(a) He orders out for pizza.
(b) He makes pork chops with pineapple cream sauce, rice, and a salad.
(c) He gets take-out from a Chinese restarurant just down the corner from his office.
(d) He stops by a deli on his way home and picks up some sandwiches.

3. What did the narrator accomplish by visiting the woman in Chapter 2?
(a) Learning what the woman looks like and that she will possibly call the person for whom the narrator is searching.
(b) He knows that the missing gold jewelry is not in the woman's house.
(c) Knows that the woman now knows that the narrator knows who she is.
(d) He will now be able to identify the woman so that she can follow her better.

4. Which one of the men who enter Patty's house in Chapter 11 does Spenser know?
(a) Hawk.
(b) Harold.
(c) Harry.
(d) Buddy.

5. Who is the tall man with the boot camp crew-cut and a navy watch cap who entered Patty's house?
(a) Buddy.
(b) Harry.
(c) Harold.
(d) Hawk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Patty's reasoning for being married?

2. In Chapter 11, one of the men says something about Spenser and guns. What is it?

3. In Chapter 8, what does Spenser do after breakfast?

4. What does Patty want Spenser to do in Chapter 7?

5. What book is Spenser reading in Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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