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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20 through 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, after the narrator enters the house and confronts the two people inside, how do the people react?
(a) They are surprised.
(b) They are happy.
(c) They are relieved.
(d) They are excited.

2. In Chapter 7, what do Patty, Paul, and Spenser have for dinner?
(a) Cold tuna sandwiches on rye bread.
(b) Hamburgers and french fries.
(c) Hot dogs with macarooni and cheese.
(d) Steak, peas, and baked potato.

3. How does Susan describe the relationship that parents have with their children?
(a) The children are possessions. In some cases, the parents' only possession.
(b) Bad parents want their children to not be able to live without them.
(c) Good parents want their children to grow up to be strong individuals.
(d) Parents only have children so that they have miniature self-likenesses running around.

4. What information did Spenser find out from the person whom he caught in Chapter 24?
(a) That Paul was really the son of a powerful mobster.
(b) That Patty Giacomin was a prostitute.
(c) That he knew Mel through Harry Cotten.
(d) That Mel Giacomin was an assassin.

5. In Chapter 20, what does Paul reveal to Spenser about his dreams?
(a) That he would like to be a construction worker.
(b) That he would like to be a private detective.
(c) That he would like to be an architect.
(d) That he would like to be a ballet dancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mel Giacomin?

2. What is the first question that the narrator asks the passenger in Chapter 4 after leaving the house?

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

4. Which one of the men who enter Patty's house in Chapter 11 does Spenser know?

5. What did Paul say about his own father and cooking?

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