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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. What does Spenser realize as he is out running?
2. What is the man replacing at Gerry's apartment?
3. Where do Spenser and Hawk meet Broz?
4. What does Spenser ask Joe to do?
5. Who does Spenser go out to see that evening?
Short Essay Questions
1. What realization does Susan come to about relationships at the beginning of this section?
2. Why does Spenser think Hawk is important to him in helping solve the case?
3. What realization does Spenser come to about Susan while he is out on his run?
4. Why does Broz say he attacked Spenser?
5. What progress does Spenser make in the investigation at the beginning of Chapter 25?
6. Why does Joe refuse to give the tapes to Spenser?
7. What does Spenser observe at Gerry's party?
8. What do Spenser and Quirk talk about in Chapter 30?
9. How do Spenser and Susan differ?
10. What does Spenser say about his relationship with Susan at the end of the novel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does Spenser makes such a good private detective? How could Spenser improve himself as a detective? How is the job of a private detective different to that of a police detective? Why did Spenser decider to become a private detective rather than a police detective?
Essay Topic 2
The Spenser books greatly influenced crime fiction. Choose a book that you think was influenced by the book and discuss its similarities with the book in terms of the following;
1. Plot
2. Character
3. Themes.
Essay Topic 3
Why does Meade make such a successful politician? What does the character of Meade express about American politics in the 1980s?
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