1. At the beginning of Chapter 2, where is the narrator sitting?
(a) At police headquarters.
(b) At the counter of a Dunkin' Donuts.
(c) The narrator's office.
(d) Outside an apartment building on Hammond Pond Parkway in Chestnut Hill.

2. In Chapter 7, what does Patty tell Spenser has happened to Paul?
(a) That the person whom she hired to babysit Paul while she was out, turned out to be one of Mel's henchmen who tried to kidnap Paul.
(b) That a strange man approached Paul on his way home from school, and told him that his father wanted to see him. When Paul would not go with him, the man got out of his car and started to chase him.
(c) That his father came to Paul's school and tried to take him out of class.
(d) That Paul tried to run away to his father's house.

3. What is the narrator hired to do in Chapter 1?
(a) Help the client find out about a blackmailer.
(b) Investigate the client's spouse.
(c) Locate the client's missing dog, a championship-winning fox terrier.
(d) Find the client's son and bring him back home.

4. What happens to the Giacomin house two days following the argument about the role of the modern women?
(a) Some men come to kidnap Paul.
(b) Paul tries to run away.
(c) Patty apologizes to Spenser and asks him to leave.
(d) Patty gets angry at Spenser and demands that he leave the house.

5. In Chapter 2, who is the narrator staking out and trying to find?
(a) Susan Silverman.
(b) Mel Giacomin.
(c) Harry Cotton.
(d) Hawk.