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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. How is Chance's TV appearance received by the audience?
(a) Most of them are excited and become more optimisitc about the economy.
(b) The TV station get many phone calls of complaint.
(c) He is asked by the audience to run for President.
(d) He receives a lot of booing from the audience.

2. Who is coming to visit Mr. Rand at his home in Chapter 4?
(a) The Governor of New York.
(b) The President of the United States.
(c) The Head of the Financial Institute.
(d) The Chief of Surgery from the Cleveland Clinic.

3. When EE compares Chance to European men, what image does that evoke for him?
(a) He draws a blank, as he does not understand what European means.
(b) A TV image of dirty, hairy people protesting the government.
(c) An image of men speaking in another language.
(d) A TV image of suave, Italian actors.

4. What does Grunmann tell the President about the Soviets?
(a) That Gardiner could be one of their spies.
(b) That their curiosity about Gardiner has also turned up nothing.
(c) That Skrapinov has been insulted by Gardiner.
(d) They are making progress on Gardiner's identity.

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) He wants to speak with them now.
(b) They will have to wait.
(c) He would rather be on television again.
(d) That he cannot give them anything.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gets Chance interested in the book Stiegler speaks of?

2. What does Ronald Stiegler of Eidolon Books offer to Chance?

3. Why is EE so upset with herself and Chance's reaction to her statements of love?

4. What is Grunmann's first name?

5. What does Grunmann first suspect about Chance?

Short Essay Questions

1. EE expresses her love to Chance in Chapter 5. What are EE's reasons for being so attracted to Chance?

2. What is Skrapinov told about Gardiner's political agenda?

3. What was one of Grunmann's concerns about what Gardiner might be up to? Why is it discounted?

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

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

6. How does Chance feel about an opportunity to appear on TV?

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

8. What assumption does the French depute, Gaufridi, make about Chance's future?

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

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

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