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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. In Chapter 2, who is the narrator staking out and trying to find?
(a) Susan Silverman.
(b) Hawk.
(c) Mel Giacomin.
(d) Harry Cotton.

2. In Chapter 7, what does Patty tell Spenser has happened to Paul?
(a) That the person whom she hired to babysit Paul while she was out, turned out to be one of Mel's henchmen who tried to kidnap Paul.
(b) That a strange man approached Paul on his way home from school, and told him that his father wanted to see him. When Paul would not go with him, the man got out of his car and started to chase him.
(c) That Paul tried to run away to his father's house.
(d) That his father came to Paul's school and tried to take him out of class.

3. In Chapter 8, when he returned after his respite after breakfast, what does Patty ask him?
(a) Whether he was married.
(b) Whether he was lonely.
(c) Whether he had decided if he would stay with them and take the job or not.
(d) Whether he wanted lunch.

4. Where does the narrator follow the woman to in Chapter 3?
(a) Mel Giacomin's house.
(b) Spenser's office.
(c) Hawk's gym.
(d) Harry Cotton's condominium.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, what is Paul's response after Patty tells Spenser her thoughts on the reality of modern women?

2. What does Patty want Spenser to do in Chapter 7?

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

4. What is Spenser's response to Patty's "plan" in Chapter 7?

5. What does Spenser do for dinner the first night that Patty is away in New York?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. Spenser reluctantly takes the job of protecting Patty and Paul from Mel and his thugs. What reservations does Spenser have about taking the job, and why does he take it?

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

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

7. 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?

8. Do you think that it was wise for Spenser to have entered Giacomin's house the way that he did?

9. How does Spenser diffuse the situation between himself, Buddy, and Harold in Chapter 11?

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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