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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does EE offer Chance to help ease his pain?

2. What is Chance's reaction when Mr. Franklin asks him is he intends to make a claim against the estate?

3. How did Chance get his name?

4. What puzzles Mr. Franklin about Chance?

5. How does the woman explain her nickname?

Short Essay Questions

1. After reading Chapter One, do you believe that Chance has the capacity to feel emotion?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. When Chance is hit by the limousine and Mrs. Rand steps out, what is familiar about her to Chance?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One theme of the book may ask the question "what is the point of life?".

A) Has this question been answered for you? Why or why not? How could it have been done better?

B) What is your answer to the point of living? Or is there one?

C) What idea was Kosinski trying to get across? Did he accomplish his goal?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the characters of Chance and Chauncey Gardiner even though they are essentially the same person.

A) Compare and contrast the characters of Chance and Chauncey as seen through the eyes of others.

B) Why is it that Mr. Franklin does not remember where he has seen Chauncey before?

C) How is it that Chauncey's image disappears for Chance by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Chance has a certain relationship with television. When he changes the channel he believes he can change himself.

A) Expand upon Chance's feelings about television.

B) Discuss what you think happens when the TV is turned off and there is the little white dot going to black.

C) What has Chance learned from watching television?

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