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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Chance go after taking his leave of the lawyer and his assistant?
(a) He makes a telephone call to a lawyer.
(b) To the garden to work.
(c) To the kitchen to make a sandwich.
(d) To his room to watch a TV show.

3. When Chance looks in the large hall mirror, what does he see?
(a) That he's all grown up.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A young boy.
(d) How ugly he's become.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the main character in the book?

2. What sound was the fat maid making as Chance entered the Old Man's bedroom?

3. What puzzles Mr. Franklin about Chance?

4. Why does Chance think that a man's name has an important connection with a man's life?

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

(see the answer key)

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