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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 what city does this story take place?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Miami.
(c) Boston.
(d) New York City.

2. What does Patty want Spenser to do in Chapter 7?
(a) To deliver a message to Mel.
(b) To go to her house in Lexington.
(c) To help her find her sister.
(d) To retrieve Paul again.

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

4. 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) He knows that the missing gold jewelry is not in the woman's house.
(d) Knows that the woman now knows that the narrator knows who she is.

5. Who is Mel Giacomin?
(a) A dentist.
(b) Spenser's client.
(c) Patty's ex-husband and Paul's father.
(d) A hoodlum Spenser knows from the past.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, who is the narrator staking out and trying to find?

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

3. In Chapter 6, what nagging situation is on Spenser's mind?

4. Who is inside the building that the narrator enters in Chapter 3?

5. In Chapter 8, how long was the time period that Spenser was gone following breakfast?

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