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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 through 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Susan think about the idea of Paul being away from his parents and learning self-reliance?
(a) She is hopeful.
(b) She is skeptical.
(c) She is positive.
(d) She is excited.

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

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

4. What did Paul say about his own father and cooking?
(a) That he would like to learn.
(b) That Mel cooked all the time.
(c) That he never did it, and that he said it was for girls.
(d) That Mel said that he would teach Paul to cook one day.

5. When Patty leaves for New York, what does Paul do?
(a) Watch TV.
(b) Stay with a friend.
(c) Build a model sailboat.
(d) Build some cabinets for the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, what is Spenser's response to the solution that Patty comes up with regarding living arrangements for Paul?

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

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

4. In Chapter 17, when Paul asks Spenser why he cannot just leave him alone, what is Spenser's answer?

5. What idea does Patty come up with to solve the problem of Mel's henchmen in Chapter 13?

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