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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 did Paul say about his own father and cooking?
(a) That he would like to learn.
(b) That Mel cooked all the time.
(c) That he never did it, and that he said it was for girls.
(d) That Mel said that he would teach Paul to cook one day.

2. Who is the narrator?
(a) Paul Warsol.
(b) Hawkeye Anderson.
(c) Mr. Spenser.
(d) Patty and Susan.

3. What does Spenser do for dinner the first night that Patty is away in New York?
(a) He makes pork chops with pineapple cream sauce, rice, and a salad.
(b) He stops by a deli on his way home and picks up some sandwiches.
(c) He gets take-out from a Chinese restarurant just down the corner from his office.
(d) He orders out for pizza.

4. Which one of the men who enter Patty's house in Chapter 11 does Spenser know?
(a) Buddy.
(b) Harold.
(c) Harry.
(d) Hawk.

5. What is the story that Patty recalls in Chapter 13?
(a) That while she was at the grocery store, three of Mel's henchmen threatened to kill her if she did not deliver Paul to Mel's house that afternoon.
(b) That Mel was waiting for her by her car in the grocery store parking lot, and that he demanded his son or he would tell the police that she had kidnapped him.
(c) The story of how she and Mel met and got married.
(d) That she was at the grocery store when three men with guns forced her into theri car. They drove to a pay phone in Boston, and then on to a bridge where they told her to get out and start walking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Spenser tells Paul that they are building the cabin a simpler, yet less desirable way. Why is the way they are doing it less desirable?

2. What kind of car does Elaine Brooks drive?

3. What is the narrator hired to do in Chapter 1?

4. What habit does the passenger have that drives the narrator absolutely crazy during their car ride in Chapter 4?

5. In Chapter 8, when Patty and Spenser are talking at the breakfast table, what conclusion does Spenser come to about Patty, Mel, and Paul's relationship?

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