View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Paul ask Spenser about dinner the first night that Patty is away in New York?
(a) Where he got the pizza.
(b) Whether they could go to the Chinese restarurant where he got the take-out.
(c) Whether he cooked the meal.
(d) Whether he could have the tuna salad sandwich from the deli.

3. Who are the two men who force their way into Patty's house in Chapter 11?
(a) Buddy and Harold.
(b) Spenser and Buddy.
(c) Henry and Harry.
(d) Hawk and Harry.

4. Besides the narrator, who else was evicted from the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston?
(a) A pet shop and a dry cleaner.
(b) A bank and a tailor.
(c) No one.
(d) A fortune-teller and a bookie.

5. Who is the tall man with the boot camp crew-cut and a navy watch cap who entered Patty's house?
(a) Harry.
(b) Hawk.
(c) Harold.
(d) Buddy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator buy at Bloomingdale's?

2. Who leaves with the narrator in Chapter 3?

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

4. Where does the narrator follow the woman to in Chapter 3?

5. What happens to the Giacomin house two days following the argument about the role of the modern women?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 356 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample