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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 puzzles Mr. Franklin about Chance?
(a) Chance's name appears nowhere in his records of house employees.
(b) Why the house is so old.
(c) Why there is a television in Chance's room.
(d) Chance's accent.

2. Who was the only person allowed to enter Chance's room?
(a) Chance's mother.
(b) Anyone could enter Chance's room.
(c) Louise.
(d) The fat maid

3. What is the name of the woman from the car?
(a) Mrs. Benjamin Rand.
(b) Mrs. Eve Gardiner.
(c) Mrs. Randall Benjamin.
(d) Mrs. Ellen Harris.

4. In what way does Chance think that plants differ from people?
(a) There is no real difference
(b) Plants can't reason or dream.
(c) Plants are more beautiful.
(d) Plants are difficult to grow.

5. When Chance sees the Old Man lying dead in his bedroom, why was the fat maid on the telephone?
(a) She had just called Louise.
(b) She had just called the doctor.
(c) She was calling her mother.
(d) She had called the Old Man's lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chance, what was one of the benefits of his position?

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

3. As EE discloses her private information, how does Chance react?

4. In what way does Chance think that plants are like people?

5. How was Chance like the plants outside in the garden?

Short Essay Questions

1. Readers discover how Chance got his name in Chapter 1. How did he get his name?

2. In Chapter 3, Chance has second thoughts about leaving the house. Where does he go?

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

4. Why can't the new maid in the Old Man's house vouch for Chance belonging there?

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

6. Why does Chance wear sunglasses to meet with the lawyer and his assistant?

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

8. In Chapter 1, readers understand that Chance does exactly as he is told by the Old Man? Why is this?

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

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

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