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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 when Mr. Franklin gives him a piece of paper to read and sign?
(a) He begins to cry because he cannot read it.
(b) He takes the paper and gets frustrated, ripping it into pieces.
(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.

2. How did Chance get his name?
(a) The Old Man took a chance by adopting him.
(b) He had been born by chance.
(c) He did a lot of risky things.
(d) He loved to gamble.

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

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

5. What does Mr. Franklin assume when Chance will not sign the paper?
(a) He thinks Chance wants his own lawyer to look at it first.
(b) He assumes that Chance wants better terms.
(c) He believes Chance needs more time to read it over.
(d) He assumes that Chance will not withdraw a claim against the estate.

6. How does Chance explain his reason for not signing the paper?
(a) He says his lawyer must look at it.
(b) He says his eyes are tired from crying.
(c) He tells the truth, saying he cannot sign it.
(d) He tells the truth, saying he cannot read.

7. What is Benjamin Rand's occupation?
(a) Chief Financial Officer of the National Reserve Bank.
(b) A speechwriter for the President of the United States.
(c) Chairman of the Board of the First Amercian Financial Corporation.
(d) A partner in the prestigious law firm of Rand and Cooper.

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

9. What surprised Chance about all of the papers spread out on the desk?
(a) His name was not mentioned in any of them.
(b) Some of them were ripped up.
(c) There was red ink all over them.
(d) They were in neat piles of twenty.

10. What does Mr. Rand ask Chance to think over?
(a) Getting a second medical opinion.
(b) Giving a time frame for leaving his home.
(c) Helping EE with her social affairs.
(d) A possible position within his company.

11. What makes Chance think he should not be drinking the wine?
(a) He prefers harder liquor.
(b) He has had it before and has gotten drunk.
(c) He thinnks it is too expensive.
(d) He has seen what it does to people on TV.

12. According to Chance, what was one of the benefits of his position?
(a) He was allowed to wear any of the Old Man's clothing from the attic.
(b) He was allowed to drive the Old Man's car.
(c) He was given a generous health insurance policy.
(d) He could eat as much food as he liked.

13. 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.

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

15. When EE visits Chance in his room the next morning, what does she reveal to him?
(a) She has no children and her husband no longer sees his only son.
(b) Her only child does not get along with her husband.
(c) Both she and Mr. Rand are childless.
(d) She and Mr. Rand have three children together.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Chance go after taking his leave of the lawyer and his assistant?

2. What clothes did Chance change into when he learned he had a visitor?

3. What happens to Chance soon after he begins walking around?

4. What medical condition did Chance's mother have?

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

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