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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 through 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of car does Elaine Brooks drive?
(a) A red MGB with a gold luggage rack.
(b) A gold LaCrosse.
(c) A black Buick Regal.
(d) A Jaguar ZX2.

2. Who hires the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Susan Silverman.
(b) Buddy.
(c) Patty Giacomin.
(d) Hawk.

3. In Chapter 8, how long was the time period that Spenser was gone following breakfast?
(a) About an hour and fifteen minutes.
(b) Four hours.
(c) All day.
(d) About two hours.

4. What is Spenser's response to Patty's "plan" in Chapter 7?
(a) He agrees, but acknowledges that guarding them is only a temporary solution.
(b) He asks her to put him on permanent retainer.
(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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What new character is introduced in Chapter 6?

2. Right after visiting Louis', where do Paul and Spenser go?

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

4. In Chapter 19, what does Paul wear on Saturday morning?

5. What did the narrator accomplish by visiting the woman in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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