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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 through 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator buy at Bloomingdale's?
(a) A fedora.
(b) A gold watch.
(c) A silver wine bucket.
(d) A pair of sneakers.

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

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

4. In Chapter 3, who else is in the house besides the narrator and the two people in the living room?
(a) Paul Giacomin.
(b) Buddy Hartman.
(c) Mel Giacomin's cleaning lady.
(d) Shelley.

5. What did the narrator accomplish by visiting the woman in Chapter 2?
(a) He will now be able to identify the woman so that she can follow her better.
(b) He knows that the missing gold jewelry is not in the woman's house.
(c) Knows that the woman now knows that the narrator knows who she is.
(d) Learning what the woman looks like and that she will possibly call the person for whom the narrator is searching.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is Elaine Brooks?

4. In Chapter 5, what is Patty's first response to Spenser and Paul's entrance?

5. What is the first question that the narrator asks the passenger in Chapter 4 after leaving the house?

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