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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 Paul ask Spenser about dinner the first night that Patty is away in New York?
(a) Whether they could go to the Chinese restarurant where he got the take-out.
(b) Whether he could have the tuna salad sandwich from the deli.
(c) Where he got the pizza.
(d) Whether he cooked the meal.

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

3. In Chapter 3, what does the man keep calling the narrator?
(a) Spenser.
(b) Buddy.
(c) Pal.
(d) Jack.

4. What is Paul's response to Patty's "plan" in Chapter 7?
(a) He is unhappy with the idea.
(b) He is angry with the idea.
(c) He is relieved by the idea.
(d) He makes no response.

5. Who is the narrator?
(a) Patty and Susan.
(b) Paul Warsol.
(c) Hawkeye Anderson.
(d) Mr. Spenser.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the tall man with the boot camp crew-cut and a navy watch cap who entered Patty's house?

3. Who is Elaine Brooks?

4. Who leaves with the narrator in Chapter 3?

5. What did Paul say about his own father and cooking?

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 10, Patty propositions Spenser, who politely rejects her advances. The two have a fairly lengthy discussion about the event, during which we learn more about Patty's feelings of self worth. What are those feelings?

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. In Chapter 12 we meet Hawk. What kind of a person does Hawk appear to be?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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