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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. Where does Spenser follow Dolly?

2. What does Dolly say is common knowledge about her mother?

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

4. What has happened outside?

5. What would the kidnapper not have done if they'd already killed Kevin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Spenser follows Vic?

2. What does Margery discover in a package? What does Spenser have to say about this?

3. How is Margery dressed at the party?

4. How does Margery respond when Spenser asks if they know anyone who might be mad at them?

5. What does Spenser discover when he returns to the Bartlett home?

6. How does Spenser find the Bartletts when he returns?

7. What does Spenser tell Healy?

8. What information does Dolly give Spenser?

9. Why was Maguire at the house? What is Margery's response when asked if she knows of anyone who would want to kill Maguire?

10. What happens when Spenser arrives at Vic's?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The relationship between Spenser and Trask is very different from the one between Spenser and Healy.

Part 1) Describe the relationship Spenser has with each man.

Part 2) Why are they so different? What is the connection between one's personality and relationships?

Part 3) How does Trask's attitude towards Spenser act as foreshadowing?

Essay Topic 2

Spenser speaks with two school employees who know Kevin.

Part 1) Describe these two people. What information does he learn from each?

Part 2) What does this interaction reveal about each of these two people?

Part 3) What clues into Kevin's life and into reason behind the kidnapping do these meetings give Spenser?

Essay Topic 3

Spenser interrogates Dr. Croft.

Part 1) Why does he interrogate him? How does Dr. Croft respond to this?

Part 2) How does his response affect his life?

Part 3) Why might Dr. Croft have been involved in the activity about which Spenser interrogates him? How does he benefit from it?

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