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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the Giacomin house two days following the argument about the role of the modern women?
(a) Patty apologizes to Spenser and asks him to leave.
(b) Some men come to kidnap Paul.
(c) Patty gets angry at Spenser and demands that he leave the house.
(d) Paul tries to run away.

2. Why does Spenser not want a personal relationship with Patty?
(a) Because he does not find her attractive.
(b) Because he does not like mixing personal issues with business matters.
(c) Because it would be unprofessional and harm his professional reputation.
(d) Because he is in love with Susan, and because he believes that Paul would think less of him if he were to get involved with Patty.

3. What is Patty's reasoning for being married?
(a) To have a stable home life.
(b) To get power and money.
(c) To have a father for Paul.
(d) To keep her from being lonely.

4. What book is Spenser reading in Chapter 7?
(a) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
(b) A Distant Mirror.
(c) To Kill a Mockingbird.
(d) Of Mice and Men.

5. In Chapter 10, what does Patty ask Spenser when he returns from dropping Paul off at school?
(a) Whether he would like to move in permanently.
(b) Whether he would go with her to the grocery store for a few items.
(c) Whether he likes the peignoir that she is wearing.
(d) Whether he thought that she and Mel should get back together.

6. What did Paul say about his own father and cooking?
(a) That Mel said that he would teach Paul to cook one day.
(b) That he never did it, and that he said it was for girls.
(c) That he would like to learn.
(d) That Mel cooked all the time.

7. In Chapter 8, what does Patty inform Spenser in relation to the upcoming weekend?
(a) That Mel is coming to visit Paul because it is his court-ordered visitation day.
(b) That Paul has a doctor's appointment.
(c) That he and Paul will be alone because she is going to New York.
(d) That Susan is having a grand party at the house.

8. In Chapter 8, what does Spenser do after breakfast?
(a) Go out for a run.
(b) Go to his office and check his messages.
(c) Take a walk.
(d) Take a nap.

9. In Chapter 4, what reasoning does the narrator give for his career choice?
(a) "It lets me live life on my own terms."
(b) "I used to be a singer, until I popped my vocal chord."
(c) "I couldn't finish medical school."
(d) "All the good acting roles were taken."

10. What did the narrator accomplish by visiting the woman in Chapter 2?
(a) Learning what the woman looks like and that she will possibly call the person for whom the narrator is searching.
(b) He will now be able to identify the woman so that she can follow her better.
(c) Knows that the woman now knows that the narrator knows who she is.
(d) He knows that the missing gold jewelry is not in the woman's house.

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

12. In Chapter 10, after Patty freshens up and returns to the breakfast table, she and Spenser have a discussion. What is that discussion about?
(a) About Patty acting out her need for companionship.
(b) About what the next stage of their plan for Paul should be.
(c) About whether they should go to the police about the attempted kidnapping.
(d) About how they should handle Mel.

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

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

15. At the beginning of Chapter 2, where is the narrator sitting?
(a) Outside an apartment building on Hammond Pond Parkway in Chestnut Hill.
(b) At police headquarters.
(c) At the counter of a Dunkin' Donuts.
(d) The narrator's office.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, what is Paul's response after Patty tells Spenser her thoughts on the reality of modern women?

2. In Chapter 3, who else is in the house besides the narrator and the two people in the living room?

3. Who is Mel Giacomin?

4. Who is the short, dumpy, barrel-bodied man with the ugly wig and an auburn Dynel ski cap who entered Patty's house?

5. Who were some of the narrator's new neighbors?

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