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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Mr. Rand give the President for not being able to address the Financial Institute?
(a) He tells him it is the doctor's orders and he is in pain.
(b) He does not give him an answer.
(c) He tells him he does not have a speech prepared.
(d) He says he has to fly to Denver for a meeting.

2. What does Sulkin think Gardiner's code name should be?
(a) "Comrade fable."
(b) "Garden."
(c) "Krylov."
(d) "Blank page."

3. In what way did the Old Man threaten Chance if he didn't do as he was told?
(a) He would be sent to bed without supper
(b) He would be banned from the garden.
(c) He would be sent to an insane asylum.
(d) His television would be taken away from him.

4. Never having appeared on television before, what does Chance do?
(a) He imitates what he has seen on TV many times before.
(b) He continues talking during commercials, not realizing there is a break in the show.
(c) He gets very nervous and stumbles over his words.
(d) He makes a fool of himself by saying ridiculous things.

5. Where did Chance go after viewing the Old Man's dead body?
(a) Into the garden.
(b) To the kitchen to make a sandwich.
(c) Outside to catch a bus.
(d) To his room to watch TV.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the "fat maid"?

2. What does Sulkin of the Foreign Department show Skrapinov as a result of his investigation of Chauncey Gardiner?

3. What did Chance do upon entering the Old Man's bedroom and seeing him dead upon the bed?

4. Who is the main character in the book?

5. When Chance refers to the "room upstairs", he refers to the room he is presently occupying. What does Mr. Rand believe he means?

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