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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 19, what does Paul wear on Saturday morning?
(a) A green polyester suit, purple shirt, and brown boots.
(b) A grey suit, a purple shirt and tie, and his sneakers.
(c) A tan corduroy jacket, brown pants, a powder blue polyester shirt with dark blue pocket flaps, no tie, black socks, and top-sider shoes.
(d) A tan suit, a blue shirt, a tan tie, and his sneakers.

3. Where does Spenser catch a ride to in Chapter 13?
(a) Patty's house in Lexington.
(b) Spenser's apartment in Boston.
(c) Susan's house in Smithfield.
(d) Mel's house in Andover.

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

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

6. In Chapter 21, what physical activity do Spenser and Paul engage in?
(a) Baseball.
(b) Yoga.
(c) Tree climbing.
(d) Boxing.

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

8. What does the man sitting at the desk in Chapter 25 look like?
(a) Scrawny, potbellied, with long, dirty fingernails and yellow teeth. His hair was the color of a Norway rat, and very thin.
(b) He was enormous; with thin blonde hair and the face of a bull mastiff.
(c) He was very fit, with well-defined muscles and a crew haircut.
(d) He was very businesslike; a crisp suit, spectacles, and a red tie.

9. 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) Canned soup and crackers.
(d) BLTs, homemade bread and butter pickles, cheese, and apples.

10. 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 really care, and are just telling Paul that to bring his inquisitiveness to an end.
(b) Because Paul's parents are small-minded people in a big world.
(c) Because they are afraid to admit what they like because other people may think they are weak.
(d) 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.

11. Why does Susan feel the way that she does about the idea of Paul being away from his parents and learning self-reliance?
(a) Because she knows how difficult it is to raise children with issues like Paul's; and she doubts that there is any possibility of change.
(b) Because she was separated from her parents when she was young, and she feels that it was a detriment to the rest of her life.
(c) Because as a guidance counselor, she knows how necessary it is for a child to be with their parents, even if the parents are abusive.
(d) Because she had a child that she had to give up, and she still hurts over that decision.

12. What is the story that Patty recalls in Chapter 13?
(a) The story of how she and Mel met and got married.
(b) 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.
(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) 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.

13. In Chapter 26, where do Paul and Spenser stay the first night?
(a) In Spenser's apartment in Boston.
(b) At Harry's gym.
(c) With Hawk.
(d) Back at the cabin.

14. What does the man at the desk threaten to do in Chapter 25?
(a) To keep Paul for ransom.
(b) To kill Spenser if he does not stay out of his business.
(c) To kidnap Susan.
(d) To burglarize Spenser's office.

15. What does Spenser think of the visitor's request in Chapter 22?
(a) "Do we sense a pattern developing?"
(b) "But there is nothing to be done about it."
(c) "You want to move in with the spiffy one on a permanent basis. But he will not take the kid. You cannot keep paying me to babysit, so you are going to ship him off to the old man."
(d) "That is what you did with Harry."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Spenser's solution to the problem discussed in Chapter 23?

2. Where do Paul and Spenser stop to eat in Chapter 15?

3. In Chapter 18, where does Paul tell Spenser that he has never been?

4. In Chapter 14, what does Hawk say about Spenser?

5. While Spenser and Paul are working in Chapter 22, who goes to the cabin?

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