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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chance say to Mrs. Aubrey when she tells him about all of the people who want interviews with him?
(a) He tells her to set all of them up for the next morning.
(b) He tells her he does not want to meet those people.
(c) He tells her he would rather watch television.
(d) He admits to her that he is not comfortable with them.

2. What does Sulkin think Gardiner's code name should be?
(a) "Garden."
(b) "Blank page."
(c) "Comrade fable."
(d) "Krylov."

3. What does EE tell the President's secretary about Mr. Gardiner's intentions?
(a) She believes his intentions are for the good of America.
(b) She feels he intends to become more active now that Mr. Rand is bedridden.
(c) She knows his intentions are to run for President in the next election.
(d) She feels he intends to marry her as soon as Mr. Rand is gone.

4. When Ambassador Skrapinov can get no information on Chance's background from the Special Section, what is his reaction?
(a) He has the agent from the Special Section promoted.
(b) He is happy that there is no bad news to report on Chance.
(c) He accepts that Chance has no history and lets it go at that.
(d) He cannot believe that Chance has no history.

5. Who is coming to visit Mr. Rand at his home in Chapter 4?
(a) The Governor of New York.
(b) The Chief of Surgery from the Cleveland Clinic.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) The Head of the Financial Institute.

6. When Mrs. Aubrey tells Chance that the Wall Street Journal has predicted his appointment to a Financial Corporation Board and they would like a statement from him, what does Chance say?
(a) He wants to speak with them now.
(b) He would rather be on television again.
(c) That he cannot give them anything.
(d) They will have to wait.

7. What is the result of Sulkin's analysis of Gardiner?
(a) He is merely a gardener having a joke on us all.
(b) He has no real politcal clout in America.
(c) He is a very emotionally well-adjusted American political figure.
(d) He is a fraud impersonating an American political figure.

8. When Chance tells the man that he wants to tell EE where they are going, what is the man's response?
(a) The man tell Chance she is better off not knowing.
(b) The man is confused at first and then says they will tell her later.
(c) The man says he will run to go and get her.
(d) The man tells Chance that is impossible.

9. When EE tries to seduce Chance in his bedroom, what is his first reaction?
(a) He is ecstatic.
(b) He is repulsed.
(c) He is bewildered.
(d) He realizes he is in love.

10. What dissuades Grunmann from this initial conclusion about Chance?
(a) Chance does not appear to be capable of doing harm.
(b) Chance watches too much TV.
(c) Chance has no American documentation.
(d) Chance does not own any weapons.

11. What invitation does EE extend to Chance the morning after Chance's appearance on "This Evening"?
(a) To go to a play about the President.
(b) To marry her after she divorces Benjamin.
(c) To go on living with them for a while longer.
(d) To go to her bedroom.

12. When a man sitting across from Chance asks him what the government will do about industrial poisons, what is Chance's response?
(a) Industry must thrive no matter what.
(b) Poisons are bad for a garden.
(c) He refuses to give an answer.
(d) There is no other choice but to use poisons.

13. A woman sitting next to Chance at dinner praises him for what reason?
(a) He is the best looking man she has ever seen.
(b) He can reduce complex issues to simple terms.
(c) He yelled at the man sitting across from him.
(d) He wears fashionable suits.

14. What does EE discover about Chance after going through all of his belongings and asking him questions about his past?
(a) She finds out how rich he really is.
(b) She finds out that he was really a gardener.
(c) She discovers that his real name is Chance.
(d) She discovers nothing about him.

15. Who else is spying on Gardiner?
(a) Russia and West Germany.
(b) No one else.
(c) Two European nations.
(d) Eight other foreign powers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does EE ask Chance to accompany her the day after the dinner party?

2. What does Grunmann first suspect about Chance?

3. When EE compares Chance to European men, what image does that evoke for him?

4. What does Sulkin praise Skrapinov for having?

5. What does the Russian Ambassador take a chance on doing during his speech to the International Congress of the Mercantile Association in Philadelphia?

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