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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who called Chance on the telephone and asked him to come up to the study?
(a) The fat maid.
(b) Thomas Franklin, an estate lawyer.
(c) Louise, the former maid.
(d) The Old Man.

3. What does Mr. Franklin first ask Chance?
(a) He asks Chance if he has any relatives.
(b) He asks Chance for some food.
(c) He asks how rooms are in the house.
(d) He asks him how many days he's been in the house.

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

5. 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 called the Old Man's lawyer.
(c) She had just called Louise.
(d) She had just called the doctor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what way did the Old Man threaten Chance if he didn't do as he was told?

3. How does Chance feel when he is in the garden?

4. What does Mr. Franklin assume when Chance will not sign the paper?

5. According to Chance, what was one of the benefits of his position?

(see the answer key)

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