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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 Spenser give back to Linda before he goes?

2. What is the name of Spenser's friend who arrives as Quirk leaves?

3. Who do Spenser and Hawk arrange a meeting with in Chapter 32?

4. What does Spenser think Susan is putting before her personal life?

5. What does Browne ask Spenser to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Spenser observe at Gerry's party?

3. Why does Spenser think Hawk is important to him in helping solve the case?

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

5. Why does Joe refuse to give the tapes to Spenser?

6. Why does Spenser sympathize with the women he photographs in Gerry's bedroom?

7. What does Spenser say he admires about Susan in this section?

8. How do Spenser and Susan differ?

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

10. What realization does Susan come to about relationships at the beginning of this section?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do the students think Robert B. Parker ends the book as he does? Do the students think he could have ended the book in another way? What meaning would that new ending have given the book?

Essay Topic 2

Replace the book's setting with one of the following settings.

1. Chicago.

2. New York.

3. Los Angeles.

What new meaning would the new setting give the book? How important is setting for developing meaning in a story?

Essay Topic 3

Aside from the main character, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

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