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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Chance looks in the large hall mirror, what does he see?
(a) A young boy.
(b) That he's all grown up.
(c) Nothing.
(d) How ugly he's become.

2. Who called Chance on the telephone and asked him to come up to the study?
(a) The Old Man.
(b) Louise, the former maid.
(c) The fat maid.
(d) Thomas Franklin, an estate lawyer.

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

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

5. Who is the "fat maid"?
(a) She is one of the many maids in the Old Man's house.
(b) She is Chance's favorite maid.
(c) She took the place of Louise when Louise left.
(d) She is Louise's best friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Chance go after taking his leave of the lawyer and his assistant?

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

3. Why does Chance think that a man's name has an important connection with a man's life?

4. What day is it when the novel begins?

5. What did Chance do upon entering the Old Man's bedroom and seeing him dead upon the bed?

(see the answer key)

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