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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20 through 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Spenser and Paul have for lunch in Chapter 21?
(a) Cobb salad and French onion soup.
(b) Grilled cheese sandwiches and potato chips.
(c) Cheddar cheese and Granny Smith apples, Bartlett pears, seedless green grapes, and an unsliced loaf of pumpernickel bread.
(d) Vegetable soup and crackers.

2. In Chapter 7, what is Patty's "plan" for Spenser?
(a) To go and beat up her ex-husband.
(b) To stay with her and Paul; to be their protector.
(c) To go to the police with the story.
(d) To go and threaten her ex-husband.

3. What does Spenser think of the visitor's request in Chapter 22?
(a) "You want to move in with the spiffy one on a permanent basis. But he will not take the kid. You cannot keep paying me to babysit, so you are going to ship him off to the old man."
(b) "But there is nothing to be done about it."
(c) "Do we sense a pattern developing?"
(d) "That is what you did with Harry."

4. What does Susan think about the idea of Paul being away from his parents and learning self-reliance?
(a) She is excited.
(b) She is hopeful.
(c) She is skeptical.
(d) She is positive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Spenser and Paul eat in Chapter 24?

2. Who are Spenser and Paul looking for after lunch in Chapter 24?

3. 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?

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

5. What book is Spenser reading in Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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