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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 does Browne ask Spenser to do?

2. What do Paul, Spenser and Paige drink with their dinner?

3. Who does Linda watch Gerry have sex with?

4. Who do Paul and Spenser talk about after Paige retires to bed?

5. What does Spenser crash into on his way to the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Spenser defeat Broz' men in this section?

2. Why do Hawk and Spenser think Broz won't take the situation any further?

3. What does Spenser discuss with Paul in this section?

4. What agreement do the men come to at the meeting in Chapter 32?

5. How does Joe Broz react to the news about his son's activities in this section?

6. How does Spenser persuade Cynthia Knox to talk to him?

7. Why does Susan think Meade Alexander is selfish?

8. What does Browne make Spenser realize about Joe Broz in Chapter 26?

9. What realization does Spenser come to about Susan while he is out on his run?

10. What do Spenser and Susan discuss at dinner?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Spenser makes such a good private detective? How could Spenser improve himself as a detective? How is the job of a private detective different to that of a police detective? Why did Spenser decider to become a private detective rather than a police detective?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the values of the 1980s.

1. In what ways are the characters a product of their time?

2. How does the book express the changes America was going through at the time?

3. Does modern society share any values with 1980s America?

Essay Topic 3

Compare Spenser's character to the person he was at the beginning of the book to the one he is at the end.

1. What did Spenser hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes Spenser ideas about life?

3. How has Spenser's character changed by the end of the book?

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