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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprised Chance about all of the papers spread out on the desk?
(a) Some of them were ripped up.
(b) There was red ink all over them.
(c) His name was not mentioned in any of them.
(d) They were in neat piles of twenty.

2. What separated the garden from the street?
(a) A white picket fence.
(b) Nothing but a few hedges.
(c) A high, red brick wall.
(d) A large wooden fence.

3. How long has Chance known Louise, the maid?
(a) Ever since he was a little boy.
(b) For ten years.
(c) Since she arrived at the house 5 years ago.
(d) He barely remembers Louise.

4. Who taught Chance how to tend the garden?
(a) The Old Man.
(b) A kind next door neighbor.
(c) A professional gardening company.
(d) A tall black man who once worked there.

5. What does Chance discover has happened to Louise?
(a) She has taken another job.
(b) She died.
(c) She has married the Old Man.
(d) She inherited a lot of money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Chance go after viewing the Old Man's dead body?

2. When Chance looks in the large hall mirror, what does he see?

3. What did the Old Man's bedroom look like?

4. What does Chance realize he cannot reveal while looking over the paper?

5. What sound was the fat maid making as Chance entered the Old Man's bedroom?

(see the answer key)

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