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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Chance tell Mrs. Aubrey that he does not need a doctor?
(a) He does not feel ill any longer.
(b) He feels he can take care of himself.
(c) He is offered an honorary doctor of law degree.
(d) His leg is all better.

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

9. 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) There is no other choice but to use poisons.
(c) He refuses to give an answer.
(d) Poisons are bad for a garden.

10. What does Chance admit to reporters waiting to interview him as he and EE leave?
(a) That he does not read newspapers but gets his news from TV.
(b) That he reads every newspaper available.
(c) That he does not belong with this group of people.
(d) That he knows nothing of world news.

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

12. What does Ronald Stiegler of Eidolon Books offer to Chance?
(a) A collection of books to read.
(b) An offer to buy the suit he is wearing.
(c) A book deal.
(d) To buy him a garden of his own.

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

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

15. EE gets Mrs. Aubrey to help Chance. What kind of service does Mrs. Aubrey provide?
(a) She gives diction lessons.
(b) She is a nurse.
(c) She is a teacher.
(d) She is a secretary.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ambassador Skrapinov can get no information on Chance's background from the Special Section, what is his reaction?

2. What reason does Mr. Rand give the President for not being able to address the Financial Institute?

3. What does Grunmann tell the President about the Soviets?

4. Why does EE find herself falling in love with Chance?

5. What does Chance's supposed code name remind Skrapinov of?

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