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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 through 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator buy at Bloomingdale's?
(a) A pair of sneakers.
(b) A silver wine bucket.
(c) A fedora.
(d) A gold watch.

2. In Chapter 2, who is the narrator staking out and trying to find?
(a) Susan Silverman.
(b) Hawk.
(c) Harry Cotton.
(d) Mel Giacomin.

3. After the eviction, what was the narrator's new address?
(a) Berkley and Height Ashbury.
(b) Boylston Street and the corner of Berkley.
(c) Speer and I-25.
(d) It was the same as the previous address.

4. When they arrive at the house in Chapter 4, how does the passenger enter the house?
(a) He pulls out his key and unlocks the side entrance to the house.
(b) He opens the back door and enters without knocking or any type of announcement.
(c) He runs up the front steps and bursts through the door.
(d) He barges in the front door and yells, "Hey! I'm home!"

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say to the woman who answers the door in Chapter 2?

2. In what city does this story take place?

3. Who was at home with Patty when Spenser and Paul arrived in Chapter 5?

4. What is the narrator hired to do in Chapter 1?

5. Who is inside the building that the narrator enters in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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