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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the last two things Chance looks at before leaving?
(a) The garden and the kitchen.
(b) The garden and the TV.
(c) The attic and the garden.
(d) The TV and the Old Man's room.

2. What disappearing image does Chance believe he sees in a puddle of rain at the very end of the story?
(a) The Old Man.
(b) Louise.
(c) Chauncey Gardiner.
(d) Benjamin Rand.

3. What does O'Flaherty say is the problem with the other potential candidates?
(a) They all have backgrounds.
(b) Each one is difficult to get along with.
(c) None of them are smart enough.
(d) None of them share the President's ideals.

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

5. When the man asks Chance if he wants to go upstairs, what are Chance's thoughts?
(a) He thinks the man is quite attractive.
(b) He hopes the man wants to go upstairs to watch television.
(c) He is not sure if it is something he knows how to do.
(d) He wonders if the man wants to also talk about books.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Chance think that plants differ from people?

2. When Chance steps out into the garden after leaving the Ball, what is his predominant feeling?

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

4. Never having appeared on television before, what does Chance do?

5. Why does Chance push his way through the dancing couples at the last party mentioned in the story?

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