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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 27 through 33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator enter the building in Chapter 3?
(a) By knocking on the door and acting like a census taker.
(b) By walking in through the open front door.
(c) By breaking in.
(d) By ringing the bell and posing as a messenger.

2. In Chapter 8, how long was the time period that Spenser was gone following breakfast?
(a) All day.
(b) About an hour and fifteen minutes.
(c) About two hours.
(d) Four hours.

3. How does the narrator get into room 315?
(a) By knocking on the door.
(b) By posing like a pizza delivery person.
(c) By acting like a cabbie delivering a package.
(d) By breaking in.

4. What does Hawk tell Spenser after he answers the phone call that he receives at the Harbour Health Club?
(a) That Harry Cotton was going to the gym to kill Spenser.
(b) That Harry Cotton had kidnapped Paul and Susan.
(c) That Harry Cotton wanted to see Spenser.
(d) That it was Harry Cotton calling Hawk to ask him to kill Spenser.

5. What is Spenser's response to Patty's "plan" in Chapter 7?
(a) He politely declines the job, and gives her the name of an associate more suited for that type of work.
(b) He agrees, but acknowledges that guarding them is only a temporary solution.
(c) He asks her to put him on permanent retainer.
(d) He tells her that it will not work, and that they must think of something else.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was at home with Patty when Spenser and Paul arrived in Chapter 5?

2. Where does Spenser have Paul stay in Chapter 23?

3. What do Paul and Spenser celebrate in Chapter 33?

4. Who is Mortimer Snerd?

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

(see the answer key)

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