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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Chance think things would immediately change now that the Old Man was gone?
(a) He read it in a book.
(b) That was the way things worked on TV shows.
(c) A lawyer phoned him to tell him this.
(d) The maid told him so.

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

3. Who is the main character in the book?
(a) EE Rand.
(b) The Old Man.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) Chance.

4. Why did the Old Man retire from his former profession?
(a) He developed a rare disease when he was 65 years old.
(b) He was hit by a car and could no longer work.
(c) He wanted to spend more time in his home.
(d) He broke his hip at the age of 72.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Chance feel when he is in the garden?

3. What surprised Chance about all of the papers spread out on the desk?

4. How was Chance like the plants outside in the garden?

5. What puzzles Mr. Franklin about Chance?

(see the answer key)

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