Early Autumn Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Early Autumn Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 runs up the front steps and bursts through the door.
(c) He barges in the front door and yells, "Hey! I'm home!"
(d) He opens the back door and enters without knocking or any type of announcement.

3. 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) "Name's Spenser with an S, like the Poet. I'm in the Boston Book. Under Tough. Heard of me?"
(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?

4. Besides the narrator, who else was evicted from the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston?
(a) No one.
(b) A pet shop and a dry cleaner.
(c) A fortune-teller and a bookie.
(d) A bank and a tailor.

5. What is the setting of the first paragraph of Chapter 6?
(a) Times Square.
(b) Madison Square Garden.
(c) Lexington, Massachusetts.
(d) Soldier Field.

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

7. When Patty leaves for New York, what does Spenser do?
(a) Watches tennis matches on TV.
(b) Go for a run.
(c) Read.
(d) Go to his office to catch up on some other cases.

8. 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:
(a) That there is more to life than being a mother and housewife.
(b) That women really need self-actualization.
(c) "That we get a lot further batting our eyes and wiggling our butts."
(d) "Women are so boring...I need men."

9. Who is Elaine Brooks?
(a) Spenser's client.
(b) Mel Giacomin's girlfriend.
(c) A witness.
(d) Spenser's receptionist.

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

11. What habit does the passenger have that drives the narrator absolutely crazy during their car ride in Chapter 4?
(a) He will not talk and blinks alot.
(b) He shrugs his shoulders in response to almost every question that he is asked.
(c) He chain smokes.
(d) He shakes his head and says that he does not know the answer to every question that he is asked.

12. What is Spenser's response to Patty's "plan" in Chapter 7?
(a) He politely declines the job, and gives her the name of an associate more suited for that type of work.
(b) He asks her to put him on permanent retainer.
(c) He tells her that it will not work, and that they must think of something else.
(d) He agrees, but acknowledges that guarding them is only a temporary solution.

13. Who leaves with the narrator in Chapter 3?
(a) Patty Giacomin.
(b) Paul Giacomin.
(c) Mel Giacomin.
(d) Elaine Brooks.

14. 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 stops by a deli on his way home and picks up some sandwiches.
(d) He gets take-out from a Chinese restarurant just down the corner from his office.

15. In what month does the story begin?
(a) November.
(b) April.
(c) January.
(d) August.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, when he returned after his respite after breakfast, what does Patty ask him?

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

3. In Chapter 7, what does Patty tell Spenser has happened to Paul?

4. Who is Mel Giacomin?

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

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