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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A woman at dinner sitting on Chance's left at dinner asks him about the war. What is his reply?
(a) War must lead to peace.
(b) The war is practically over.
(c) He has served in war.
(d) He has seen many wars on TV.

2. When the President of the United States tries to get information on Chance from EE, what does his secretary report to him?
(a) Mr. Gardiner cherishes his privacy.
(b) Mr. Gardiner will give an in-depth interview the next day.
(c) Mrs. Rand says she knows nothing at all about Mr. Gardiner.
(d) Mrs. Rand tell the President's secretary to leave the family alone for now.

3. When Tom Courtney of the New York Times telephones Chance to interview him, what does Chance say?
(a) He answers all of Mr. Courtney's questions.
(b) He tells Mr. Courtney about the Old Man's house and how he was asked to leave.
(c) He tells Mr. Courtney that he prefers to speak about gardening and how important it is.
(d) He has no comment other than to say he enjoyed his meeting with the President.

4. How does Chance feel about EE being in bed next to him once they get home?
(a) He is sexually excited by being with her.
(b) He wants to touch her one spot at a time.
(c) He is terrified to be alone with her.
(d) He prefers to just look at her and thereby memorize and possess her.

5. What was Chance watching on TV when the inspectors arrived?
(a) An old movie from the 1950s.
(b) The Governor's limousine driving out of Albany.
(c) A detective show.
(d) The landing of the President's helicopter.

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

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

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

9. How is Chance's TV appearance received by the audience?
(a) The TV station get many phone calls of complaint.
(b) Most of them are excited and become more optimisitc about the economy.
(c) He is asked by the audience to run for President.
(d) He receives a lot of booing from the audience.

10. When Chance tells Mr. Rand that he's looking better, what does Mr. Rand tell him?
(a) That it's all make-up and he is a dying man.
(b) That he feels like a new man.
(c) That he has made a miracle recovery.
(d) That he is not afraid of death.

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

12. When Chance tells Stiegler that he can neither read or write, what does Stiegler take this to mean?
(a) He thinks Chance is making a huge joke and laughs along with it.
(b) He believes Chance is telling the truth and walks away.
(c) He believes Chance is asking for writing assistance and that he has no time to read.
(d) He thinks Chance is dyslexic.

13. What does Grunmann first suspect about Chance?
(a) That he might be an agent of a foreign power.
(b) That he is insane.
(c) That he plans to assasinate the President.
(d) That he is preparing a coup d'etat.

14. When Chance tells the man that he just wants to watch, what is the man's reaction?
(a) He is horrified.
(b) He is giddy with delight.
(c) He is amazed.
(d) He is repulsed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When a man sitting across from Chance asks him what the government will do about industrial poisons, what is Chance's response?

2. Where has EE gone the morning after Chance has slept at her home?

3. EE gets Mrs. Aubrey to help Chance. What kind of service does Mrs. Aubrey provide?

4. Who does Sulkin think Gardiner actually is?

5. Where does Chance's secretary tell Chance she has seen his photographs the next morning?

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