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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does EE ask Chance to accompany her the day after the dinner party?
(a) The United Nations Dinner.
(b) The Soviet Union.
(c) The Capitol Hill Ball.
(d) Denver.

2. When Chance accepts an invitation to appear on a live TV show, what are his thoughts?
(a) He wants to know if he could really become an actor.
(b) He wants to discover what the host of the show is like in real life.
(c) He hopes he will find out how a TV show is produced.
(d) He wonders how he will be changed as a result of being on the screen.

3. What kind of feelings does Chance evoke in EE?
(a) The feeling of freedom and self-revelation.
(b) The glories of love and selflessness.
(c) Depression and hopelessness.
(d) Feelings of sadness and aloneness.

4. What does the Russian Ambassador take a chance on doing during his speech to the International Congress of the Mercantile Association in Philadelphia?
(a) He speaks about Chauncy Gardiner as an enlightened statesman.
(b) He makes a veiled threat to the United States President.
(c) He encourages Chauncy Gardiner to run for President of the United States.
(d) He speaks of Chauncy Gardiner's love of Krylov's fables.

5. Who does Sulkin think Gardiner actually is?
(a) A German spy.
(b) A leading member of an American elitist faction planning a coup d'etat.
(c) A Republican masquerading as a Democrat to get inside information.
(d) A major leader of the American Communist Party preparing for a revolution.

6. Where has Chance seen the President before?
(a) On TV during a military parade.
(b) At news press conference.
(c) During a visit to the White House.
(d) As he was walking down a street in New York.

7. At the UN reception, Chance meets the Soviet Ambassador. How does Chance impress him?
(a) He is amazed at Chance's good looks.
(b) He believes Chance has read Krylov's fables.
(c) He thinks Chance has impeccable manners for an American.
(d) He thinks Chance has been to Russia often and that he speaks Russian.

8. When a man with long gray hair first sits down to speak with Chance, what does Chance understand about what he is saying?
(a) He does not understand what the man is talking about.
(b) He understands that the man is propositioning him.
(c) He knows the man is talking about politics.
(d) He believes the man wants to have a laugh with him.

9. What gets Chance interested in the book Stiegler speaks of?
(a) Stiegler compares publishing to television.
(b) Stiegler compares publishing to a garden.
(c) Stiegler tells Chance that books are like television.
(d) Chance never gets interested in the book.

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

11. What does Grunmann tell the President about the Soviets?
(a) That Gardiner could be one of their spies.
(b) That Skrapinov has been insulted by Gardiner.
(c) They are making progress on Gardiner's identity.
(d) That their curiosity about Gardiner has also turned up nothing.

12. What has happened to one Soviet agent as a result of his background investigation of Mr. Gardiner?
(a) He returned to the Soviet Union in disgrace.
(b) He was promoted after finding more information about Gardiner.
(c) He was discovered to be a spy.
(d) He was murdered by his own countrymen.

13. 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 admits to her that he is not comfortable with them.
(d) He tells her he would rather watch television.

14. Why does EE find herself falling in love with Chance?
(a) He is self-reliant, very confident and quite handsome.
(b) He is a pitiful character and she wants to take care of him.
(c) He is a wealthy man who can continue to support her.
(d) He speaks to her of love quite often.

15. What does EE tell Chance before she leaves his room?
(a) That she is angry with him.
(b) That she can't wait for him much longer.
(c) That she loves him.
(d) That he watches too much TV.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is EE so upset with herself and Chance's reaction to her statements of love?

2. Why does Chance believe that the sense of sight is better than the sense of touch?

3. How much does Chance know about sex and childbirth?

4. Never having appeared on television before, what does Chance do?

5. How has Sulkin had Gardiner's appearance on "This Evening" analyzed?

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