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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 24, where do Paul and Spenser go after lunch?
(a) To a bar.
(b) To the aquarium.
(c) To the museum of natural science.
(d) To a Red Sox game.

2. Who was the best fighter Spenser ever fought?
(a) Rob Marciano.
(b) Joe Walcott.
(c) Horace Gracie.
(d) Muhammad Ali.

3. What does the man sitting at the desk in Chapter 25 look like?
(a) He was very businesslike; a crisp suit, spectacles, and a red tie.
(b) He was very fit, with well-defined muscles and a crew haircut.
(c) He was enormous; with thin blonde hair and the face of a bull mastiff.
(d) Scrawny, potbellied, with long, dirty fingernails and yellow teeth. His hair was the color of a Norway rat, and very thin.

4. Which of the following projects does Spenser think will teach Paul to become independent and self-reliant?
(a) Moving out by himself.
(b) Going camping for a month in the wilds of the Maine woods.
(c) Building a house on Susan's property in Fryeburg, Maine.
(d) Growing his own food and living in a cabin in the Maine woods.

5. 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) No one.
(d) A fortune-teller and a bookie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator buy at Bloomingdale's?

2. What is Paul's opinion on possibly finding out some less-than-desirable information on his parents?

3. Where does Spenser catch a ride to in Chapter 13?

4. What does Paul ask Spenser about red and gray squirrels?

5. When Paul asks Spenser about his fighting career, he asks if he could have been a champion; and Spenser says no. What is Spenser's reasoning for that answer?

(see the answer key)

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