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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Franklin first ask Chance?
(a) He asks Chance for some food.
(b) He asks how rooms are in the house.
(c) He asks Chance if he has any relatives.
(d) He asks him how many days he's been in the house.

2. Chance basically did two things in the Old Man's house. Those two things were what?
(a) Sit with Louise and chat and watch TV.
(b) Tend the garden and watch TV.
(c) Take care of the Old Man and tend the garden.
(d) Prepare his meals and tend the garden.

3. What day is it when the novel begins?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) We are not told.

4. What makes Chance think he should not be drinking the wine?
(a) He prefers harder liquor.
(b) He has seen what it does to people on TV.
(c) He has had it before and has gotten drunk.
(d) He thinnks it is too expensive.

5. What does EE discover upon talking to Chance when he wakes up?
(a) That he was once married but his wife died.
(b) That he was a gardener in the Old Man's house.
(c) That he blames her for the accident.
(d) That he has no wife or no family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Chance been paid for his gardening chores over the years?

2. What does the woman in the limousine understand Chance's name to be?

3. When Chance refers to the "room upstairs", he refers to the room he is presently occupying. What does Mr. Rand believe he means?

4. What medical condition did Chance's mother have?

5. What do readers know about the fat maid?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it that Chance does not appear in any of Mr. Franklin's records?

2. When Chance periodically takes time in the garden to sit on the grass and think in Chapter 1, what goes through his mind?

3. How did Chance know when it was time for him to leave the study?

4. Why does EE change Chance's name when he introduces himself?

5. Why does EE decide to invite Chance to stay at her home?

6. How does the day begin after the Old Man dies in Chapter 2 ?

7. Why do you believe that Chance thinks and feels the way he does as described in Chapter 1?

8. In Chapter 1, when Chance is in the garden, what is his mood?

9. Chance notices the TV in the rear of the car and asks if it works. Why does EE assume that he wants to watch TV at a time like this?

10. Do you think Chance acted appropriately in response to the Old Man's death in Chapter 1?

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