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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the time Spenser and Roger return to the kitchen, Margery is well on her way to doing what?
(a) Getting drunk.
(b) Losing her mind.
(c) Putting the groceries away.
(d) Preparing dinner.

2. On the morning of the pickup, Spenser watches as Margery does what?
(a) Cries in her room.
(b) Gets out of the car and stands on the corner.
(c) Walks to the woods.
(d) Hides in her house.

3. Is there any way for the police to track the driver of the vehicle?
(a) Possibly.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Probably.

4. Why does Spenser have a sandwich?
(a) He is hungry.
(b) So he can observe from a bale of hay without seeming out of place.
(c) He is bored.
(d) So he can share some with Margery.

5. What is the Labrador's name?
(a) Brownie.
(b) Sweetie.
(c) Sunshine.
(d) Punkin.

6. Describe Kevin's room.
(a) Obsessively neat.
(b) Fairly organized.
(c) Very dirty.
(d) A typical teenager's room.

7. Healy shows Spenser two sheets of paper, each inside a transparent cover. The first is what?
(a) A photograph of Kevin.
(b) A hand-drawn comic strip featuring a voluptuous woman dressed in a mini-skirt and seated at a bar.
(c) A letter created by cutting out various fonts from magazine article titles.
(d) A blank sheet of paper.

8. What does Healy tell Spenser they have to do?
(a) Work.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Argue.
(d) Think.

9. When Susan arrives, he realizes that the name "Silverman" means what?
(a) She likes silver.
(b) She is probably Jewish.
(c) She has changed her name.
(d) She is a silversmith.

10. Does Kevin seem like the kind of kid who would take his pet without taking something to carry the animal in and something to feed it?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Yes.
(c) Probably.
(d) No.

11. He goes home and calls Susan, inviting her to what?
(a) Lunch.
(b) A ball game.
(c) A movie.
(d) Dinner.

12. Does Spenser think Kevin is still nearby?
(a) Probably not.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

13. Margery continues to cry and Maguire suggests that they do what to calm her down?
(a) Tell her to breathe deeply.
(b) Call her doctor to prescribe something.
(c) Sing her a song.
(d) Put her to bed.

14. What does Spenser learn about Vic Harroway?
(a) He is about forty.
(b) He is about twenty.
(c) He is about fifty.
(d) He is about thirty.

15. Who on the steps yells for Vic?
(a) A boy.
(b) A girl.
(c) Kevin.
(d) An old woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Vic?

2. What does Spenser not have regarding this case?

3. When Spenser says that he wants to "rent a high-spirited palomino stallion with a hand-tooled Spanish leather saddle and silver-studded bridle", Healy does what?

4. What does the Bartletts' house look like?

5. Spenser knows there is a man in the woods behind him. Can he see any sign of him?

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