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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Chance's reaction when Mr. Franklin asks him is he intends to make a claim against the estate?
(a) Chance is saddened.
(b) Chance is hopeful.
(c) Chance is confused.
(d) Chance is indignant.

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

3. 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 give him a ride back to his home.
(c) She offers him money for his injuries.
(d) She offers to bring him to the hospital.

4. What day is it when the novel begins?
(a) We are not told.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Sunday.

5. Was Chance curious about life outside the walls of the garden?
(a) Not at all.
(b) We are never told.
(c) Yes, he always thought about it.
(d) He was curious about street sounds only.

6. Why couldn't Chance leave the Old Man's house or go beyond the garden gate?
(a) He had some sort of brain damage.
(b) He had no money of his own.
(c) He couldn't walk very well.
(d) He did not speak English.

7. When was the last time Chance left the house?
(a) Two years ago.
(b) To get the mail.
(c) To go for a walk in the rain.
(d) He has never left.

8. How was Chance like the plants outside in the garden?
(a) He was colorful and lively.
(b) He was silent, open in sunshine and heavy in rain.
(c) He always smelled sweet.
(d) He grew lively every spring.

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

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

11. What does EE discover upon talking to Chance when he wakes up?
(a) That he has no wife or no family.
(b) That he was a gardener in the Old Man's house.
(c) That he blames her for the accident.
(d) That he was once married but his wife died.

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

13. Mr. Rand believes that Chance has found the perfect metaphor for a productive businessman when Chance describes:
(a) A good television program.
(b) His financial approach.
(c) The Old Man's law firm.
(d) A productive garden.

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

15. In what way did Chance believe that the garden was its own graveyard?
(a) Under every tree and plant there were decomposing roots.
(b) There were people buried under parts of the garden.
(c) He knew he would be buried in that garden one day.
(d) The garden was so peaceful, like a cemetery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Chance believe he could do just by turning the TV dial?

2. What does Chance discover has happened to Louise?

3. How does Mr. Franklin have a record of the Old Man's affairs?

4. Who was the only person allowed to enter Chance's room?

5. What does Mr. Rand ask Chance to think over?

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