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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 trhough 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, after the narrator enters the house and confronts the two people inside, how do the people react?
(a) They are happy.
(b) They are surprised.
(c) They are excited.
(d) They are relieved.

2. In Chapter 8, when he returned after his respite after breakfast, what does Patty ask him?
(a) Whether he was lonely.
(b) Whether he was married.
(c) Whether he had decided if he would stay with them and take the job or not.
(d) Whether he wanted lunch.

3. In Chapter 3, what does the man keep calling the narrator?
(a) Pal.
(b) Buddy.
(c) Jack.
(d) Spenser.

4. In Chapter 7, what does Patty tell Spenser has happened to Paul?
(a) 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.
(b) 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.
(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.

5. Who is Elaine Brooks?
(a) Spenser's client.
(b) A witness.
(c) Spenser's receptionist.
(d) Mel Giacomin's girlfriend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mel Giacomin?

2. What does Paul ask Spenser about dinner the first night that Patty is away in New York?

3. When Patty leaves for New York, what does Paul do?

4. What does the narrator say to the woman who answers the door in Chapter 2?

5. Which one of the men who enter Patty's house in Chapter 11 does Spenser know?

(see the answer key)

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