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

2. What has happened to one Soviet agent as a result of his background investigation of Mr. Gardiner?
(a) He was promoted after finding more information about Gardiner.
(b) He was murdered by his own countrymen.
(c) He was discovered to be a spy.
(d) He returned to the Soviet Union in disgrace.

3. Chance meets both a French and a West German diplomat. What does Chance say to them?
(a) He says only a few words.
(b) He talks of EE's love for him.
(c) He goes on and on about gardening.
(d) He speaks of meeting with the President.

4. Who is Mr. Rand expecting to come to the house to do a routine inspection?
(a) The Secret Service.
(b) The FBI.
(c) The local police.
(d) The CIA.

5. When Mrs. Aubrey tells Chance that the Wall Street Journal has predicted his appointment to a Financial Corporation Board and they would like a statement from him, what does Chance say?
(a) They will have to wait.
(b) That he cannot give them anything.
(c) He wants to speak with them now.
(d) He would rather be on television again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the President think of Chance after hearing him speak?

2. What does EE tell Chance before she leaves his room?

3. When a man with long gray hair first sits down to speak with Chance, what does Chance understand about what he is saying?

4. A woman at dinner sitting on Chance's left at dinner asks him about the war. What is his reply?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the President beginning to become suspicious of Chauncy Gardiner in Chapter 5?

2. What is the bad joke that Grunmann begins to make when speaking to the President in Chapter 6?

3. Mr. Rand tells Chance that he admires his peacefulness. What is it about Chance that makes him appear so at ease?

4. What does Chance say to both a man at the dinner party and to EE when they each make sexual advances towards him? Why?

5. In Chapter 4, what does Benjamin Rand say to indicate that he thinks Chance is a very smart man?

6. Sulkin submits a tape of Gardiner's appearance on THIS EVENING for psychiatric, neurological and linguistic analysis. What is discovered?

7. At the United Nations gala in Chapter 5, who does Chance seem to impress the most and why?

8. When the New York Times reporter, Tom Courtney, interviews Chance over the phone, what kind of answers does Chance give him?

9. What does EE find herself thinking about more and more as she flies back to New York from Denver?

10. Upon entering Chance's bedroom, EE gives him more clues that she is enamored with him. What hints does she drop to Chance and what is his reaction?

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