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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 need to learn more than anything else if he is to survive?
(a) How to dress.
(b) Autonomy.
(c) How to please others.
(d) How to make his parents happy.

2. What does the narrator buy at Bloomingdale's?
(a) A pair of sneakers.
(b) A gold watch.
(c) A fedora.
(d) A silver wine bucket.

3. After the eviction, what was the narrator's new address?
(a) Boylston Street and the corner of Berkley.
(b) Berkley and Height Ashbury.
(c) Speer and I-25.
(d) It was the same as the previous address.

4. In Chapter 8, when he returned after his respite after breakfast, what does Patty ask him?
(a) Whether he was married.
(b) Whether he was lonely.
(c) Whether he had decided if he would stay with them and take the job or not.
(d) Whether he wanted lunch.

5. Who is inside the building that the narrator enters in Chapter 3?
(a) Hawk and Henry.
(b) Spenser and Susan Silverman.
(c) Mel Giacomin and Elaine Brooks.
(d) Patty Giacomin and Paul Giacomin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What habit does the passenger have that drives the narrator absolutely crazy during their car ride in Chapter 4?

2. In what city does this story take place?

3. In Chapter 9, what do Paul and Spenser decide to do for dessert?

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

5. In Chapter 7, what do Patty, Paul, and Spenser have for dinner?

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