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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chance insist he has done all of his life?
(a) Been a gardener living in the house.
(b) Cooked all of the Old Man's meals.
(c) Read many, many books.
(d) Fixed televisions.

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

3. How does the woman explain her nickname?
(a) It is short for "evil eye".
(b) It refers to the poet e.e. cummings.
(c) It stands for Elizabeth Eve.
(d) It stands for Ellen Elizabeth.

4. Why did Chance think things would immediately change now that the Old Man was gone?
(a) A lawyer phoned him to tell him this.
(b) The maid told him so.
(c) He read it in a book.
(d) That was the way things worked on TV shows.

5. 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 change the world.
(d) He could bring the people on TV inside his eyelids.

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

7. What does the woman Chance meets right after leaving the Old Man's house offer to him?
(a) She offers to bring him to her home because a doctor is there.
(b) She offers to bring him to the hospital.
(c) She offers to give him a ride back to his home.
(d) She offers him money for his injuries.

8. What puzzles Mr. Franklin about Chance?
(a) Why there is a television in Chance's room.
(b) Chance's accent.
(c) Chance's name appears nowhere in his records of house employees.
(d) Why the house is so old.

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

10. What do readers know about the fat maid?
(a) She watches TV with Chance.
(b) She sits and reads to Chance every night.
(c) She was once married to the Old Man.
(d) She is from another country and doesn't understand what is said on TV.

11. Being outside in the world seems familiar to Chance. What does it remind him of?
(a) It is just like his garden to him.
(b) It reminds him of the books he has read.
(c) It is similar to what he has seen on TV.
(d) He remembers it from when he was a small child.

12. Where does Chance go after taking his leave of the lawyer and his assistant?
(a) To the garden to work.
(b) To his room to watch a TV show.
(c) To the kitchen to make a sandwich.
(d) He makes a telephone call to a lawyer.

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

14. What does Chance realize he cannot reveal while looking over the paper?
(a) That he cannot read or write.
(b) That he will never leave the house.
(c) That he is responsible for the Old Man's death.
(d) That he already knows what is written there.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way did Chance believe that the garden was its own graveyard?

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

3. What had Chance been paid for his gardening chores over the years?

4. What does Chance do the morning after Mr. Franklin's visit?

5. How long has Chance known Louise, the maid?

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