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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 he could ask her for her phone number.
(d) Whether she was wealthy or poor?

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

3. In Chapter 10, what does Patty do in response to Paul's comments about her thoughts on the reality of modern women?
(a) Looking into her coffee cup, she says nothing,
(b) She is quiet for some time, and finally acknowledges that he has a point.
(c) She begins to cry, and runs out of the kitchen and into her bedroom, slamming the door.
(d) She knocks over her half-full cup of coffee and its saucer off the table and onto the floor; and leaves the kitchen for her bedroom, slamming the door.

4. In Chapter 7, what do Patty, Paul, and Spenser have for dinner?
(a) Cold tuna sandwiches on rye bread.
(b) Hamburgers and french fries.
(c) Steak, peas, and baked potato.
(d) Hot dogs with macarooni and cheese.

5. Who leaves with the narrator in Chapter 3?
(a) Paul Giacomin.
(b) Patty Giacomin.
(c) Mel Giacomin.
(d) Elaine Brooks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 4, what does the passenger say about the narrator's profession?

3. What favor does Patty ask of Spenser in Chapter 5?

4. In Chapter 8, what does Spenser do after breakfast?

5. In Chapter 4, what does the passenger say about the narrator's muscles?

Short Essay Questions

1. If you were Spenser, what would you have done differently in Chapter 2?

2. What type of person does Patty Giacomin seem to be?

3. In the scene where Paul arrives home, Patty is entertaining a male guest, Stephen Court. How does that scene make you feel?

4. What type of person does the narrator seem to be?

5. What type of person does Mel Giacomin appear to be?

6. When Paul arrives home, what is the reaction that mother and son both give and receive?

7. What does the discussion that Patty and Spenser have in Chapter 8 reveal to the audience about Patty's real character?

8. In Chapter 6 we are introduced to Spenser's girlfriend, Susan Silverman. What type of a person does she seem to be, and how does that contrast or compliment Spenser's personality?

9. Why does Spenser not like the growing sense of intimacy that he describes in Chapter 10?

10. In April, after Mel's thugs try to kidnap Paul, Patty Giacomin calls Spenser for help once again. This time, she asks Spenser to protect her and Paul. Why does Patty desperately call Spenser when she experiences trouble with her ex-husband in relation to her son?

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