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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Chance been paid for his gardening chores over the years?
(a) He received a new car every year.
(b) He was paid $200 per week.
(c) He was given a home near the Old Man's house.
(d) He was given meals, a room and a television.

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

3. The Old Man did not leave something behind before he died. What was it?
(a) A will.
(b) A burial plot.
(c) An autobiography.
(d) A suicide letter.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who called Chance on the telephone and asked him to come up to the study?

2. What does Chance insist he has done all of his life?

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

4. Why couldn't Chance leave the Old Man's house or go beyond the garden gate?

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

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