View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does EE tell Chance before she leaves his room?
(a) That she loves him.
(b) That she can't wait for him much longer.
(c) That she is angry with him.
(d) That he watches too much TV.

2. What did Chance believe he could do just by turning the TV dial?
(a) He could break it if he went too fast.
(b) He could enter the TV and become an actor in it.
(c) He could bring the people on TV inside his eyelids.
(d) He could change the world.

3. When Chance tells EE that he has been with a sick man upstairs during the dinner party, what does she think about Chance?
(a) He wasted his time.
(b) He is lying.
(c) He is an angel to always be helping people.
(d) He annoyed her because he left her to help someone.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Being outside in the world seems familiar to Chance. What does it remind him of?

2. What does EE discover upon talking to Chance when he wakes up?

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

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

5. What does Chance realize once he has locked the gate behind him and stepped outside?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 446 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample