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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chance do the morning after Mr. Franklin's visit?
(a) He prepares a large breakfast.
(b) He packs a suitcase.
(c) He moves up to the Old Man's room.
(d) He believes it was all a dream.

2. How long has Chance known Louise, the maid?
(a) He barely remembers Louise.
(b) Since she arrived at the house 5 years ago.
(c) Ever since he was a little boy.
(d) For ten years.

3. In what way did the Old Man threaten Chance if he didn't do as he was told?
(a) His television would be taken away from him.
(b) He would be sent to bed without supper
(c) He would be sent to an insane asylum.
(d) He would be banned from the garden.

4. What does Chance do when Mr. Franklin gives him a piece of paper to read and sign?
(a) He takes the paper and gets frustrated, ripping it into pieces.
(b) He begins to cry because he cannot read it.
(c) He reads the paper aloud.
(d) He imitates what he's seen people on TV do when they found themselves in a similar situation.

5. When Chance refers to the "room upstairs", he refers to the room he is presently occupying. What does Mr. Rand believe he means?
(a) The room in the Old Man's house.
(b) Heaven.
(c) The presidency.
(d) The roof of the house.

6. How does Chance introduce himself once he is in the limousine?
(a) Chance.
(b) Chance from the Old Man's house.
(c) Chance, as in luck.
(d) Chance the gardener.

7. What medical condition did Chance's mother have?
(a) High blood pressure.
(b) Diabetes.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Brain damage.

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

9. What TV character does Chance choose to imitate when having dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Rand?
(a) An insurance salesman trying to make a sale.
(b) A detective investigating a murder.
(c) A man having dinner with his girlfriend and her father.
(d) A young businessman dining with his boss and the boss's daughter.

10. What is the name of the woman from the car?
(a) Mrs. Ellen Harris.
(b) Mrs. Benjamin Rand.
(c) Mrs. Eve Gardiner.
(d) Mrs. Randall Benjamin.

11. What had Chance been paid for his gardening chores over the years?
(a) He received a new car every year.
(b) He was given a home near the Old Man's house.
(c) He was given meals, a room and a television.
(d) He was paid $200 per week.

12. How does Mr. Franklin have a record of the Old Man's affairs?
(a) He was the Old Man's best friend.
(b) The Old Man stipulated that his records be available to Mr. Franklin in his will.
(c) The Old Man was a partner in the law firm.
(d) He hired a detective.

13. Where did Chance go after viewing the Old Man's dead body?
(a) To his room to watch TV.
(b) Into the garden.
(c) Outside to catch a bus.
(d) To the kitchen to make a sandwich.

14. 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 change the world.
(c) He could bring the people on TV inside his eyelids.
(d) He could enter the TV and become an actor in it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Benjamin Rand's occupation?

2. What does the woman in the limousine understand Chance's name to be?

3. As EE discloses her private information, how does Chance react?

4. When the doctor gets an injection ready to ease Chance's pain, what are Chance's thoughts?

5. Where had Louise gone to live after leaving the Old Man's house?

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