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

2. Who does Spenser call on to help him during the hostage situation in Chapter 12?
(a) Henry.
(b) Hawk.
(c) Buddy.
(d) Harold.

3. 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?
(a) Because he did not want to be a champion.
(b) Because he injured his knee and could not fight anymore.
(c) Because he got too old to train properly.
(d) Because he was in a different league than champions.

4. What does Spenser wonder about the female jogger in the beige and blue exercise outfit?
(a) Whether she was wealthy or poor?
(b) Whether she would jog with him if he were to offer her money and power.
(c) Whether she was married or living with someone.
(d) Whether he could ask her for her phone number.

5. Besides the narrator, who else was evicted from the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston?
(a) A bank and a tailor.
(b) A fortune-teller and a bookie.
(c) A pet shop and a dry cleaner.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Spenser and Paul have for lunch in Chapter 21?

2. What does Patty want Spenser to do in Chapter 7?

3. What does Paul ask Spenser about dinner the first night that Patty is away in New York?

4. In Chapter 3, after the narrator enters the house and confronts the two people inside, how do the people react?

5. What is the narrator hired to do in Chapter 1?

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