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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 Chance realize he cannot reveal while looking over the paper?
(a) That he already knows what is written there.
(b) That he is responsible for the Old Man's death.
(c) That he will never leave the house.
(d) That he cannot read or write.

2. What surprised Chance about all of the papers spread out on the desk?
(a) Some of them were ripped up.
(b) They were in neat piles of twenty.
(c) There was red ink all over them.
(d) His name was not mentioned in any of them.

3. What does the woman in the limousine understand Chance's name to be?
(a) Chauncey Gardiner.
(b) Old Man Chauncey.
(c) Lucky Chance.
(d) Basil Gardiner.

4. What did Chance believe he could do just by turning the TV dial?
(a) He could break it if he went too fast.
(b) He could bring the people on TV inside his eyelids.
(c) He could enter the TV and become an actor in it.
(d) He could change the world.

5. Being outside in the world seems familiar to Chance. What does it remind him of?
(a) It reminds him of the books he has read.
(b) It is similar to what he has seen on TV.
(c) He remembers it from when he was a small child.
(d) It is just like his garden to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What separated the garden from the street?

2. What are the last two things Chance looks at before leaving?

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 happens to Chance when the limousine makes a sharp sudden stop?

5. When Chance is asked to come up to the study, what is the name of woman he meets?

Short Essay Questions

1. Chapter 2 explains how Chance feels when he does not look at people. Explain this feeling.

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

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

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

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

6. In Chapter 2, what are Mr. Franklin and Miss Hayes trying to discover about Chance?

7. Why does Chance pretend to be able to read the paper that the lawyer gives him to sign?

8. What surprises Chance about the outside world once he has left the Old Man's home?

9. In Chapter 1, in what way does Chance feel safe and secure in the garden?

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

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