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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why didn't Chance like to take the elevator in the house?
(a) It was broken.
(b) He didn't understand how it worked.
(c) He preferred to take the stairs for exercise.
(d) He didn't trust it since Louise was once trapped in it.

2. What do readers know about the fat maid?
(a) She watches TV with Chance.
(b) She was once married to the Old Man.
(c) She is from another country and doesn't understand what is said on TV.
(d) She sits and reads to Chance every night.

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

4. How did Chance get his name?
(a) He did a lot of risky things.
(b) The Old Man took a chance by adopting him.
(c) He had been born by chance.
(d) He loved to gamble.

5. 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 had just called the doctor.
(c) She had just called Louise.
(d) She was calling her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Chance saw a figure on the TV screen, what did he imagine he was looking at?

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

3. When was the last time Chance left the house?

4. When Chance changed the channel on the TV, what did he believe he could do?

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

(see the answer key)

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