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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. How does the narrator enter the building in Chapter 3?
(a) By breaking in.
(b) By knocking on the door and acting like a census taker.
(c) By ringing the bell and posing as a messenger.
(d) By walking in through the open front door.

2. 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) Learning what the woman looks like and that she will possibly call the person for whom the narrator is searching.
(c) Knows that the woman now knows that the narrator knows who she is.
(d) He knows that the missing gold jewelry is not in the woman's house.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Paul's response to Patty's "plan" in Chapter 7?

2. In Chapter 8, what does Spenser do after breakfast?

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

4. In Chapter 7, what is Patty's "plan" for Spenser?

5. Who does Spenser call on to help him during the hostage situation in Chapter 12?

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