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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Paul's answer when Spenser asks him whether there is any place that he has always wanted to go, that no one would take him, that he was afraid to ask?
(a) That he would like to go to the opera.
(b) That he would like to go to the symphony.
(c) That he would like to go to the theater.
(d) That he would like to go to the ballet.

3. What is Paul's response to Spenser's plans for the property?
(a) He does not believe that Spenser can do it. He also says that he does not want to help.
(b) That they are crazy, and that Spenser is crazy.
(c) That Spenser has a good plan and that Paul wants to help.
(d) Paul shrugs and says that he does not care.

4. What do Spenser and Paul have for lunch in Chapter 21?
(a) Cobb salad and French onion soup.
(b) Vegetable soup and crackers.
(c) Cheddar cheese and Granny Smith apples, Bartlett pears, seedless green grapes, and an unsliced loaf of pumpernickel bread.
(d) Grilled cheese sandwiches and potato chips.

5. Who is already there when Spenser arrives at his destination in Chapter 13?
(a) Susan, Patty, and Paul; Hawk arrives with Spenser.
(b) Hawk, Buddy, and Harold.
(c) Mel, Buddy, and Harold.
(d) Paul, Mel, and Buddy.

6. What is already built on Susan's rural property?
(a) A rustic hunting cabin.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A well for fresh water.
(d) The foundation for a new house.

7. How does Susan describe the relationship that parents have with their children?
(a) The children are possessions. In some cases, the parents' only possession.
(b) Bad parents want their children to not be able to live without them.
(c) Parents only have children so that they have miniature self-likenesses running around.
(d) Good parents want their children to grow up to be strong individuals.

8. What does the group decide to have for dinner in Chapter 13?
(a) Grilled cheese sandwiches, potato chips, and fruit cocktail.
(b) PB&Js.
(c) BLTs, homemade bread and butter pickles, cheese, and apples.
(d) Canned soup and crackers.

9. Where does Spenser have Paul stay in Chapter 23?
(a) At the cabin by himself.
(b) With Harry Cimoli.
(c) With Hawk.
(d) With Susan.

10. What is the story that Patty recalls in Chapter 13?
(a) That she was at the grocery store when three men with guns forced her into theri car. They drove to a pay phone in Boston, and then on to a bridge where they told her to get out and start walking.
(b) That while she was at the grocery store, three of Mel's henchmen threatened to kill her if she did not deliver Paul to Mel's house that afternoon.
(c) That Mel was waiting for her by her car in the grocery store parking lot, and that he demanded his son or he would tell the police that she had kidnapped him.
(d) The story of how she and Mel met and got married.

11. What is Spenser's solution to the problem discussed in Chapter 23?
(a) There is no solution.
(b) To use Elaine to find Mel.
(c) To look into boarding schools.
(d) To blackmail Paul's parents.

12. What is Spenser's response when Paul asks him why he thinks that Paul's parents say everything is for girls?
(a) Because they do not know any better; because they do not know who they are, or how to find outp or what a good person is, or how to find out. So they rely on categories.
(b) Because they do not really care, and are just telling Paul that to bring his inquisitiveness to an end.
(c) Because they are afraid to admit what they like because other people may think they are weak.
(d) Because Paul's parents are small-minded people in a big world.

13. In Chapter 13, what is Spenser's response to the solution that Patty comes up with regarding living arrangements for Paul?
(a) He is ecstatic about Hawk taking Paul into hiding.
(b) He thinks that Ohio is a good place for Paul, since he does not want to live with either parent.
(c) He agrees to take Paul.
(d) He is not sure that Susan is ready for a child.

14. Why does Spenser feel that Paul needs to be away from his parents?
(a) Because they are using him to bait each other, and it is not psychologically or emotionally healthy.
(b) Because the two of them need time to work out their problems.
(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.

15. What does the visitor in Chapter 22 ask for Paul and Spenser to do?
(a) To hire Spenser for a case.
(b) To show their building permits.
(c) For Paul to go with them.
(d) To handle a construction job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Spenser and Paul eat in Chapter 24?

2. What does Spenser tell Paul that they are going to do with Susan's rural property?

3. On their first full day at the cabin in Chapter 16, Spenser and Paul go to North Conway for which of the following?

4. What does the man at the desk threaten to do in Chapter 25?

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

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