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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. How does Spenser respond when Margery asks him to stay?

2. Who does Spenser invite to the party?

3. Margery is on the phone, talking to whom?

4. Since Spenser is not near his car, he runs back in that direction, hoping to do what?

5. They go up to Kevin's secret room, and Spenser discovers what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Spenser and the Bartletts do?

2. What happens when Spenser follows Vic?

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

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

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

6. What takes place between Susan and Spenser?

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

8. What happens at the Odds' End bar?

9. What does Margery request of Spenser? What is his response?

10. How does Spenser know there are no signs of a break in?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Spenser brings the Bartletts to find their son.

Part 1) How do the parents react when they see Vic and Kevin?

Part 2) Why does Roger want to fight Vic alone? What does this reveal about his character?

Part 3) Does Kevin react the way his father would hope? Why or why not?

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 gains many clues through Vic.

Part 1) How does he encounter Vic? How does he prepare for these encounters?

Part 2) What clues does he receive through Vic? How are these clues significant?

Part 3) Are any of these clues necessary for finding Kevin? If so, which ones and why? If not, why not?

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