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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chance's supposed code name remind Skrapinov of?
(a) His ruined career in espionage.
(b) The glory of Marxism.
(c) His many victories in World War II.
(d) Someone who has no intelligence.

2. Who is the main character in the book?
(a) The Old Man.
(b) Chance.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) EE Rand.

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

4. What does the woman Chance meets right after leaving the Old Man's house offer to him?
(a) She offers to bring him to the hospital.
(b) She offers him money for his injuries.
(c) She offers to bring him to her home because a doctor is there.
(d) She offers to give him a ride back to his home.

5. In what way did Chance believe that the garden was its own graveyard?
(a) Under every tree and plant there were decomposing roots.
(b) There were people buried under parts of the garden.
(c) He knew he would be buried in that garden one day.
(d) The garden was so peaceful, like a cemetery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chance meets both a French and a West German diplomat. What does Chance say to them?

2. Chance basically did two things in the Old Man's house. Those two things were what?

3. A woman at dinner sitting on Chance's left at dinner asks him about the war. What is his reply?

4. When Chance tells EE that he has been with a sick man upstairs during the dinner party, what does she think about Chance?

5. When EE visits Chance in his room the next morning, what does she reveal to him?

(see the answer key)

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