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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. What does Spenser say about ballet dancers?
(a) That ballet dancing is a very admirable profession.
(b) That they are talentless hacks.
(c) That dancing is for girls.
(d) That they are fine athletes and gifted artists.

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

3. What is the first question that the narrator asks the passenger in Chapter 4 after leaving the house?
(a) "Name's Spenser with an S, like the Poet. I'm in the Boston Book. Under Tough. Heard of me?"
(b) "Who would you rather live with, your mother or your father?
(c) "Smart. I like a man who gets out of a marriage gracefully. Don't you?"
(d) "Package for Ms. Brooks. She 'ere?"

4. What kind of car does Elaine Brooks drive?
(a) A red MGB with a gold luggage rack.
(b) A gold LaCrosse.
(c) A black Buick Regal.
(d) A Jaguar ZX2.

5. Why does Spenser feel that Paul needs to be away from his parents?
(a) Because the two of them need time to work out their problems.
(b) Because they are using him to bait each other, and it is not psychologically or emotionally healthy.
(c) Because they are harming him; and they have not taught him how to survive.
(d) Because Paul does not want to live with either one of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the group decide to have for dinner in Chapter 13?

2. What does Spenser wear on Saturday morning in Chapter 19?

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

4. What problem are Susan and Spenser trying to solve in Chapter 23?

5. In Chapter 3, what does the man keep calling the narrator?

(see the answer key)

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