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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. Which one of the men who enter Patty's house in Chapter 11 does Spenser know?
(a) Harry.
(b) Harold.
(c) Buddy.
(d) Hawk.

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

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

4. Who is the tall man with the boot camp crew-cut and a navy watch cap who entered Patty's house?
(a) Harry.
(b) Buddy.
(c) Harold.
(d) Hawk.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what nagging situation is on Spenser's mind?

2. What is the setting of the first paragraph of Chapter 6?

3. When Patty leaves for New York, what does Spenser do?

4. In Chapter 10, after Patty freshens up and returns to the breakfast table, she and Spenser have a discussion. What is that discussion about?

5. In Chapter 8, what does Patty inform Spenser in relation to the upcoming weekend?

Short Essay Questions

1. By the beginning of Chapter 6, some time has passed since Spenser's case with the Giacomins; but, he really cannot stop thinking about the whole situation. It bothers him at a basketball game during a date with his girlfriend, Susan. What does this extended concern that Spenser shows for Paul and the discontent that Spenser feel for Patty and Mel show about Spenser's character?

2. In Chapter 8, Patty makes breakfast for herself and Spenser after Spenser drops Paul off at school. During breakfast the two of them get into a somewhat heated discussion about the roles of men and women in life, as well as their places in society. What are Patty's views on the topic as shown by that discussion?

3. What does Spenser's rescue plan for Patty and Paul along with its execution show us about yet another part of Spenser's personality?

4. What do Paul Giacomin's feelings for his parents appear to be?

5. Based on what we read in Chapter 2, what types of personal qualities would be necessary to handle Spenser's job? Why?

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

9. In Chapter 11, Spenser and Paul have a discussion about why Spenser did not shoot the intruders. What does Spenser tell Paul about his reluctance to shoot Buddy and Harold?

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

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