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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 changed the channel on the TV, what did he believe he could do?
(a) He might break the TV set.
(b) He could find the perfect TV show.
(c) He could find a gardening show.
(d) He could change himself.

2. Chance basically did two things in the Old Man's house. Those two things were what?
(a) Prepare his meals and tend the garden.
(b) Take care of the Old Man and tend the garden.
(c) Tend the garden and watch TV.
(d) Sit with Louise and chat and watch TV.

3. How did Chance get his name?
(a) He loved to gamble.
(b) He had been born by chance.
(c) He did a lot of risky things.
(d) The Old Man took a chance by adopting him.

4. What does Mr. Franklin assume when Chance will not sign the paper?
(a) He assumes that Chance will not withdraw a claim against the estate.
(b) He believes Chance needs more time to read it over.
(c) He assumes that Chance wants better terms.
(d) He thinks Chance wants his own lawyer to look at it first.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Old Man retire from his former profession?

2. How does Mr. Franklin have a record of the Old Man's affairs?

3. What day is it when the novel begins?

4. When Chance looks in the large hall mirror, what does he see?

5. What does Chance do when Mr. Franklin gives him a piece of paper to read and sign?

(see the answer key)

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