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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Spenser drives about a hundred yards past Vic's road and does what?
(a) Slows down.
(b) Turns around.
(c) Parks.
(d) Speeds up.

2. What does Spenser find when he returns from shopping?
(a) The guinea pig dead.
(b) Roger dead.
(c) Margery dead.
(d) Maguire dead.

3. Late for dinner, Spenser stops for a bottle of ___________ and makes it to Susan's by ten thirty.
(a) Pinot Grigio.
(b) Cabernet Savignon.
(c) Pinot Noir.
(d) Dom Perignon.

4. Who helps Spenser examine the house?
(a) Margery.
(b) Healy.
(c) Dolly.
(d) Trask.

5. Spenser arrives at the Bartletts' house to find Roger doing what?
(a) Cooking dinner.
(b) Slicing a roast turkey breast for sandwiches.
(c) Arguing with Margery.
(d) Watching television.

6. Croft says that he knows about Vic simply by what?
(a) His friendship with Kevin.
(b) His photographs.
(c) Reputation.
(d) Having attended the same school.

7. The only person Margery can think of who actually hates them is who?
(a) Kevin.
(b) Vic.
(c) Roger.
(d) Dolly.

8. How does Spenser respond when Margery asks him to stay?
(a) He does not agree.
(b) He agrees.
(c) He does not respond.
(d) He leaves without speaking.

9. Just as he begins to search, he hears who scream from outside?
(a) Roger.
(b) Margery.
(c) Dolly.
(d) Susan.

10. Spenser receives a phone call from whom?
(a) Trask.
(b) The state police.
(c) Healy.
(d) Vic.

11. Describe the fight.
(a) Very confusing.
(b) Long and brutal.
(c) Victorious for Vic.
(d) Brief.

12. Who does Spenser suggest might be mad at the Bartletts?
(a) Kevin.
(b) Dolly.
(c) A business situation with Roger.
(d) Vic.

13. Why was Maguire at the house?
(a) To guard the house.
(b) To prepare the bar for the party.
(c) He is Margery's boyfriend.
(d) To discuss legal matters with Margery.

14. Margery is on the phone, talking to whom?
(a) A boyfriend.
(b) The caterers for the evening's party.
(c) Vic.
(d) Her husband.

15. When Susan arrives, Spenser catches her up and she wonders what about Margery?
(a) If she throws parties like this often.
(b) How Margery is able to enjoy herself at a time like this.
(c) How she can treat her husband in this way.
(d) If it's courage, obsession or madness that makes Margery hold a party with all that's going on.

Short Answer Questions

1. Margery enters and asks for what?

2. At two-thirty am, Roger is in bed and what has happened to Margery?

3. Where has Race seen Vic?

4. When Spenser goes back to the front and tells Trask what has happened to Croft, how does the police officer appear?

5. Spenser then heads for the Smithfield Police Station where he plans to do what?

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