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The Mad Season

 

Study Guide Questions

1. Where does Steve Asher work?

2. What kind of car did Alex Webster drive?

3. Why had Steve overslept?

4. What was the maintenance man's name?

5. Who honored Alex Webster as "Man of the Year"?

6. What was Steve Asher's masters degree in?

7. Lt. Jenkins reminded Steve of a good bass singer for what group?

8. What letter was carved in Alex Webster's chest?

9. What would be the clue the cops would withhold? 

10. Who did Steve Asher find in the guidance office?

11. What did Paul Shannon have in his shoes?

12. How long had Paul Shannon been assistant principal?

13. Who said "Living at risk is jumping off a cliff and building your wings on the way down?

14. What magazine did Fred Jacobs subscribe to? 

15. What initials were in Webster's appointment book for 6:30?

16. Whom was Sam Sherman a descendant of?

17. According to Rob McAllister, a basketball game was like a what?

18. Who said "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question"?

19. Where did Beth's parents live?

20. What kind of car did Beth drive?

21. What was Beth's nickname for Fred Jacobs?

22. How long had Steve and Beth been divorced?

23. How old was Steve when his father died?

24. Where did Bettina teach before coming to North Middle?

25. Who said "Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym"?

26. How long ago had Sam Sherman given up smoking? 

27. What was carved on Rob McAllister's chest?

28. Who said "When in doubt, trust your paranoia, it is probably the most accurate reading of the world"?

29. When was the first factory built in Waltham?

30. What was Dave Paulini's girlfriend's name?

31. What kind of tattoo did the stranger that showed up at Steve's apartment have?

32. How old was Alex Webster when he was killed?

33. What kind of work did Sean Nichols's father do?

34. Where was Sean Nichols's favorite place to hang out?

35. What police force did Gary Williams work on?

36. Where did Steve and Beth meet for a drink?

37. Who called on the phone while Steve was at the bar?

38. How did Steve meet Officer Rita Dooley?

39. Who was the artist that offered Beth a job?

40. What was Rita Dooley's hobby?

41. Where did Lieutenant Jenkins work before coming to Waltham?

42. What did Steve suspect the murder weapon was?

43. What was the name of the magazine Steve found in Rob McAllister's desk?

44. What town was the bookstore in?

45. What was Steve's mother's favorite TV show?

46. What name did Fred and Steve sign the letter with?

47. Who said "Whoever fights monsters, should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster"?

48. What was Steve's mother's favorite restaurant?

49. What meal did Steve describe as "world famous"?

50. What section of Waltham was Alex's house in?

51. What were the names of Alex's two kids?

52. What instrument did Alex Webster play?

53. What Agatha Christie novel did Steve find in Alex's library?

54. What war was Alex Webster in?

55. What was Steve's father's name?

56. Where did Fred and Steve meet the mysterious man on the phone?

57. What song was on the radio when the white Cadillac pulled up?

58. Who said "To be in Hell is to drift...To be in Heaven is to steer"?

59. What city did Bettina Clark live in?

60. In what part of Boston did Steve lose Fred?

61. Who said "Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb"?

62. Who was sitting in Steve's apartment when he arrived with Fred?

63. Where was the secret cabinet hidden?

64. When Bettina, Fred and Steve left the school, who was waiting?

65. How did the three get to the police station?

66. What did Steve find in the closet when he got home?

67. What letter was carved in his chest?

68. Where did Fred Jacobs live?

69. What style was Fred Jacobs's house?

70. What did Fred collect?

71. Whose portrait hung on Fred's bedroom wall?

72. What type of gun did Fred pull on Steve?

73. Where was Dave being held prisoner?

Answers

1. North Middle School
2. '96 Ford station wagon
3. Because of the snooze alarm
4. Bill Dumas
5. The Kiwanis
6. Education
7. The Temptations
8. The letter "A"
9. The letter "A" carved in his chest
10. Lucy Wilson
11. Heel lifts
12. Three years
13. Ray Bradbury
14. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
15. "F J"
16. William "Tecumseh" Sherman
17. War
18. Eugene Ionesco
19. Upstate New York
20. Ford Escort
21. Hercule Poiret
22. Seven years
23. Eight years old
24. Otis Air Force Base
25. Woody Allen
26. Six months
27. The letter "B"
28. Ray Davies
29. 1811
30. Mildred
31. An eagle
32. 62 years old
33. Auto repair
34. The impressionist gallery at The Museum of Fine Arts
35. Williamstown, MA
36. O'Hara's
37. Dave Paulini
38. They team-taught a course at school on decision making
39. Wendell James
40. Photography
41. Los Angeles
42. A bowling pin
43. Buxom Babes
44. Stoughton, MA
45. Perry Mason
46. Richard Little
47. Nietzsche
48. Mariono's
49. His meatloaf
50. The Highlands
51. Ted and Tina
52. The piano
53. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
54. The Korean War
55. Thomas
56. Revere Beach
57. "Devil or Angel" by the Clovers
58. George Bernard Shaw
59. Somerville, MA
60. East Boston
61. Bob Dylan
62. Bettina Clark
63. Bill Dumas's office
64. The skinny kid in the white Cadillac
65. They walked
66. Bill Dumas's body
67. The letter "C"
68. Concord
69. Colonial
70. Guns
71. Jesus
72. .357 magnum
73. In a storage cellar

 


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