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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. Who leaves with the narrator in Chapter 3?
(a) Paul Giacomin.
(b) Mel Giacomin.
(c) Patty Giacomin.
(d) Elaine Brooks.

2. What is the narrator hired to do in Chapter 1?
(a) Investigate the client's spouse.
(b) Locate the client's missing dog, a championship-winning fox terrier.
(c) Help the client find out about a blackmailer.
(d) Find the client's son and bring him back home.

3. What does Spenser wonder about the female jogger in the beige and blue exercise outfit?
(a) Whether she would jog with him if he were to offer her money and power.
(b) Whether she was wealthy or poor?
(c) Whether he could ask her for her phone number.
(d) Whether she was married or living with someone.

4. In Chapter 10, after Patty freshens up and returns to the breakfast table, she and Spenser have a discussion. What is that discussion about?
(a) About whether they should go to the police about the attempted kidnapping.
(b) About what the next stage of their plan for Paul should be.
(c) About how they should handle Mel.
(d) About Patty acting out her need for companionship.

5. In Chapter 10, what is Paul's response after Patty tells Spenser her thoughts on the reality of modern women?
(a) "Those are your beliefs, Mom."
(b) "Just because I am a boy I do not have an opinion on the subject."
(c) "You are going through a tough time. But you will not feel that way forever."
(d) "Yeah, look where it got you."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator enter the building in Chapter 3?

2. In Chapter 3, after the narrator enters the house and confronts the two people inside, how do the people react?

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

4. Who were some of the narrator's new neighbors?

5. What book is Spenser reading in Chapter 7?

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