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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chance's supposed code name remind Skrapinov of?
(a) His many victories in World War II.
(b) His ruined career in espionage.
(c) Someone who has no intelligence.
(d) The glory of Marxism.

2. How has Sulkin had Gardiner's appearance on "This Evening" analyzed?
(a) He had computers analyze his vocabulary and other characteristics.
(b) He was in the audience that evening for the live broadcast.
(c) He had psychiatrists evaluate his conversation.
(d) He took note of every five-syllable word Gardiner used.

3. 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 seen many wars on TV.
(d) He has served in war.

4. What does the President think of Chance after hearing him speak?
(a) He never wants to meet with Chance again.
(b) He is quite intelligent and makes a lot of sense.
(c) Chance does not know what he is talking about.
(d) Chance's metaphor is treason.

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

6. Where has EE gone the morning after Chance has slept at her home?
(a) To Denver.
(b) To Washington, D.C.
(c) To Cleveland.
(d) To Texas.

7. 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 understands that the man is propositioning him.
(b) He does not understand what the man is talking about.
(c) He knows the man is talking about politics.
(d) He believes the man wants to have a laugh with him.

8. How much does Chance know about sex and childbirth?
(a) He knows everything.
(b) Only what he has learned from a maintenance man and seen on television.
(c) Everything that he has learned from the Old Man's magazines.
(d) He understands that childbirth comes before sex.

9. When Chance tells EE that he has been with a sick man upstairs during the dinner party, what does she think about Chance?
(a) He wasted his time.
(b) He is an angel to always be helping people.
(c) He annoyed her because he left her to help someone.
(d) He is lying.

10. 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 murdered by his own countrymen.
(d) He was discovered to be a spy.

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

12. 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 would rather watch television.
(c) He admits to her that he is not comfortable with them.
(d) He tells her he does not want to meet those people.

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

14. Why does Chance believe that the sense of sight is better than the sense of touch?
(a) Reading is done by sight, not touch.
(b) Sight takes in everything at once while touch is limited to one area.
(c) The garden is for looking at, not for touching.
(d) One can determine colors with sight but not with touch.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Chance's TV appearance received by the audience?

2. What does EE discover about Chance after going through all of his belongings and asking him questions about his past?

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

4. When Tom Courtney of the New York Times telephones Chance to interview him, what does Chance say?

5. What does Chance admit to reporters waiting to interview him as he and EE leave?

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