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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What favor does Patty ask of Spenser in Chapter 5?
2. Who is the short, dumpy, barrel-bodied man with the ugly wig and an auburn Dynel ski cap who entered Patty's house?
3. What does Spenser do for dinner the first night that Patty is away in New York?
4. In Chapter 2, who is the narrator staking out and trying to find?
5. In Chapter 3, after the narrator enters the house and confronts the two people inside, how do the people react?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What does Spenser's preparation of the impromptu meal in Chapter 9 reveal about his character?
3. 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?
4. Why does Spenser not like the growing sense of intimacy that he describes in Chapter 10?
5. In the scene where Paul arrives home, Patty is entertaining a male guest, Stephen Court. How does that scene make you feel?
6. Based on what we read in Chapter 2, what types of personal qualities would be necessary to handle Spenser's job? Why?
7. What does Spenser's rescue plan for Patty and Paul along with its execution show us about yet another part of Spenser's personality?
8. 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?
9. What do Paul Giacomin's feelings for his parents appear to be?
10. What type of person does the narrator seem to be?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Spenser and Susan's relationship is very different from Mel and Patty's.
Part 1) Explore the relationship between Susan and Spenser in a more in-depth way; how do they treat each other (i.e., Spenser uses manners when speaking to Susan; Susan is always truthful to Spenser, even when it is not something that he necessarily wants to hear);
Part 2) How does the relationship between Spenser and Susan affect Paul?
Use specific examples from the text to support your answers.
Essay Topic 2
If you were the author of "Early Autumn", what is one aspect of the story that you would change? Why would you change it? How would it affect the overall story?
Essay Topic 3
Paul Giacomin is at the heart of this story. He is the boy whose parents fight over him as if he were property; and the boy whom Spenser fights for in order to save his life. Explore Paul's character. Look through the text and use examples from it to support your ideas in relation to the kind of a person that Paul was before he met Spenser, and what kind of a person he was when he left Spenser to go to school.
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