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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the woman explain her nickname?
(a) It is short for "evil eye".
(b) It stands for Elizabeth Eve.
(c) It stands for Ellen Elizabeth.
(d) It refers to the poet e.e. cummings.

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

3. Who was the only person allowed to enter Chance's room?
(a) Louise.
(b) Anyone could enter Chance's room.
(c) The fat maid
(d) Chance's mother.

4. When Chance refers to the "room upstairs", he refers to the room he is presently occupying. What does Mr. Rand believe he means?
(a) Heaven.
(b) The presidency.
(c) The roof of the house.
(d) The room in the Old Man's house.

5. Why didn't Chance like to take the elevator in the house?
(a) He didn't understand how it worked.
(b) He didn't trust it since Louise was once trapped in it.
(c) He preferred to take the stairs for exercise.
(d) It was broken.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who taught Chance how to tend the garden?

3. What did Chance believe he could do just by turning the TV dial?

4. What does Mr. Franklin inform Chance will happen the next day by noon?

5. What sound was the fat maid making as Chance entered the Old Man's bedroom?

(see the answer key)

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