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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Spenser's response when Paul asks him why he thinks that Paul's parents say everything is for girls?
(a) Because they do not really care, and are just telling Paul that to bring his inquisitiveness to an end.
(b) Because Paul's parents are small-minded people in a big world.
(c) Because they are afraid to admit what they like because other people may think they are weak.
(d) Because they do not know any better; because they do not know who they are, or how to find outp or what a good person is, or how to find out. So they rely on categories.

2. What idea does Patty come up with to solve the problem of Mel's henchmen in Chapter 13?
(a) That Paul go to live with his distant great-aunt in Ohio.
(b) That Susan adopt Paul.
(c) That Hawk take Paul into hiding.
(d) That Spenser take Paul.

3. Which of the following projects does Spenser think will teach Paul to become independent and self-reliant?
(a) Going camping for a month in the wilds of the Maine woods.
(b) Building a house on Susan's property in Fryeburg, Maine.
(c) Growing his own food and living in a cabin in the Maine woods.
(d) Moving out by himself.

4. Where does Spenser have Paul stay in Chapter 23?
(a) At the cabin by himself.
(b) With Susan.
(c) With Harry Cimoli.
(d) With Hawk.

5. Why does Mel's access to "leg breakers" concern Spenser?
(a) Because they would get in the way of a court case.
(b) Because Mel's friends could hurt Patty.
(c) Because Mel's friends could hurt Paul.
(d) Because a normal insurance salesman and real estate agent would not know where to find such individuals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What information did Spenser find out from the person whom he caught in Chapter 24?

2. What does Susan say about Spenser's personality in Chapter 20?

3. While Spenser and Paul are working in Chapter 22, who goes to the cabin?

4. In Chapter 26, where do Paul and Spenser stay the first night?

5. What is Paul's answer when Spenser asks him whether there is any place that he has always wanted to go, that no one would take him, that he was afraid to ask?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Paul force Spenser to wake him the way that he did in Chapter 16?

2. How does Spenser handle the confrontation with Patty in Chapter 22?

3. Why does Spenser feel that teaching Paul to box and weight lift is important?

4. Why does Spenser believes that teaching Paul to run is important?

5. Why is the discussion that Spenser and Paul have in Chapter 21 about the rules of fighting an important one?

6. What is the lesson that Spenser is trying to teach Paul via the two of them building the cabin together with their own hands instead of hiring someone else to do it or using machinery?

7. What type of character is Harry Cotton?

8. As evidenced in his conversation with Spenser in Chapter 20, why is Paul curious in relation to why his parents think the way that they do?

9. Why does Spenser decide to take Paul to Fryeburg and build a cabin?

10. Is the violence used in Chapter 24 necessary? Why?

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