View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Old Man's former profession?
(a) He owned a landscaping company.
(b) He was a wealthy investor.
(c) He was a lawyer.
(d) He was an accountant.

2. What separated the garden from the street?
(a) A white picket fence.
(b) A high, red brick wall.
(c) A large wooden fence.
(d) Nothing but a few hedges.

3. What is the invitation that EE extends to Chance?
(a) She invites him to stay in their home until he is better.
(b) She invites him to join her husband's corporation.
(c) She invites him to stay until the following day.
(d) She invites him to a party that evening.

4. When Chance changed the channel on the TV, what did he believe he could do?
(a) He could change himself.
(b) He might break the TV set.
(c) He could find a gardening show.
(d) He could find the perfect TV show.

5. What happens to Chance soon after he begins walking around?
(a) Someone on a bicycle runs into him.
(b) A woman is running and causes Chance to fall.
(c) He gets hit by a limousine.
(d) Someone throws something from a building that hits his head.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does Mr. Franklin inform Chance will happen the next day by noon?
(a) The house willl be under construction for renovations.
(b) He will be served with a warrant for his arrest.
(c) He will be moved up to live in the Old Man's bedroom.
(d) The doors to the house and gates to the garden will be locked.

12. Why does Chance think that a man's name has an important connection with a man's life?
(a) A name decides what type of person you really are.
(b) A name is connected to family trees.
(c) People on TV have two names; a real one and a performing one.
(d) A man's name describes exactly what he does for a living.

13. What does EE offer Chance to help ease his pain?
(a) She teaches him deep breathing techniques.
(b) A couple of aspirin.
(c) A drink of cognac.
(d) A massage of his injured leg.

14. What did Chance do upon entering the Old Man's bedroom and seeing him dead upon the bed?
(a) He began to cry.
(b) He fainted and fell to the floor.
(c) He went over to the maid and hugged her.
(d) He looked at the Old Man and stared into his face.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the Old Man in the bedroom?

2. What do Mr. Franklin and his assistant call Chance?

3. What did the Old Man's bedroom look like?

4. What TV character does Chance choose to imitate when having dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Rand?

5. What do readers know about the fat maid?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 743 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample