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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way does Chance think that plants are like people?
(a) Both need very little care to thrive.
(b) Both need care to be happy and healthy.
(c) Both can be compared to television.
(d) Both have goals and dreams.

2. Where is Louise originally from?
(a) England.
(b) Barbados.
(c) Jamaica.
(d) Germany

3. Why did Chance think things would immediately change now that the Old Man was gone?
(a) A lawyer phoned him to tell him this.
(b) The maid told him so.
(c) He read it in a book.
(d) That was the way things worked on TV shows.

4. What does Chance realize he cannot reveal while looking over the paper?
(a) That he will never leave the house.
(b) That he already knows what is written there.
(c) That he cannot read or write.
(d) That he is responsible for the Old Man's death.

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

6. When Chance refers to the "room upstairs", he refers to the room he is presently occupying. What does Mr. Rand believe he means?
(a) The roof of the house.
(b) The presidency.
(c) The room in the Old Man's house.
(d) Heaven.

7. Who is the "fat maid"?
(a) She is Louise's best friend.
(b) She took the place of Louise when Louise left.
(c) She is one of the many maids in the Old Man's house.
(d) She is Chance's favorite maid.

8. What does EE discover upon talking to Chance when he wakes up?
(a) That he blames her for the accident.
(b) That he was a gardener in the Old Man's house.
(c) That he was once married but his wife died.
(d) That he has no wife or no family.

9. Who was the only person allowed to enter Chance's room?
(a) Chance's mother.
(b) The fat maid
(c) Anyone could enter Chance's room.
(d) Louise.

10. What was the Old Man's former profession?
(a) He was a wealthy investor.
(b) He was a lawyer.
(c) He was an accountant.
(d) He owned a landscaping company.

11. Mr. Rand believes that Chance has found the perfect metaphor for a productive businessman when Chance describes:
(a) A good television program.
(b) A productive garden.
(c) The Old Man's law firm.
(d) His financial approach.

12. Why couldn't Chance leave the Old Man's house or go beyond the garden gate?
(a) He had no money of his own.
(b) He couldn't walk very well.
(c) He did not speak English.
(d) He had some sort of brain damage.

13. When Chance sees the Old Man lying dead in his bedroom, why was the fat maid on the telephone?
(a) She had called the Old Man's lawyer.
(b) She was calling her mother.
(c) She had just called the doctor.
(d) She had just called Louise.

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

15. What are the last two things Chance looks at before leaving?
(a) The TV and the Old Man's room.
(b) The garden and the kitchen.
(c) The garden and the TV.
(d) The attic and the garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What clothes did Chance change into when he learned he had a visitor?

2. When Chance is asked to come up to the study, what is the name of woman he meets?

3. How does Chance introduce himself once he is in the limousine?

4. The Old Man did not leave something behind before he died. What was it?

5. What does the woman in the limousine understand Chance's name to be?

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