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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Mr. Rand ask Chance to think over?
(a) Giving a time frame for leaving his home.
(b) Getting a second medical opinion.
(c) Helping EE with her social affairs.
(d) A possible position within his company.
2. When Chance looks in the large hall mirror, what does he see?
(a) How ugly he's become.
(b) That he's all grown up.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A young boy.
3. Being outside in the world seems familiar to Chance. What does it remind him of?
(a) It reminds him of the books he has read.
(b) It is just like his garden to him.
(c) He remembers it from when he was a small child.
(d) It is similar to what he has seen on TV.
4. What does EE offer Chance to help ease his pain?
(a) A drink of cognac.
(b) She teaches him deep breathing techniques.
(c) A couple of aspirin.
(d) A massage of his injured leg.
5. When EE visits Chance in his room the next morning, what does she reveal to him?
(a) She and Mr. Rand have three children together.
(b) Both she and Mr. Rand are childless.
(c) Her only child does not get along with her husband.
(d) She has no children and her husband no longer sees his only son.
6. What separated the garden from the street?
(a) A large wooden fence.
(b) Nothing but a few hedges.
(c) A high, red brick wall.
(d) A white picket fence.
7. Where had Louise gone to live after leaving the Old Man's house?
(a) Florida.
(b) Jamaica.
(c) She never left the house.
(d) Europe.
8. What is Chance's reaction when Mr. Franklin asks him what his name is?
(a) He is happy.
(b) He is very surprised.
(c) He is uneasy.
(d) He is suspicious.
9. What does Chance insist he has done all of his life?
(a) Read many, many books.
(b) Cooked all of the Old Man's meals.
(c) Been a gardener living in the house.
(d) Fixed televisions.
10. What clothes did Chance change into when he learned he had a visitor?
(a) A pair of jeans and a hat.
(b) His best suit and a pair of large sunglasses.
(c) A white shirt and black pants.
(d) His gardening clothes.
11. When Chance changed the channel on the TV, what did he believe he could do?
(a) He could find the perfect TV show.
(b) He could change himself.
(c) He might break the TV set.
(d) He could find a gardening show.
12. How does Chance introduce himself once he is in the limousine?
(a) Chance.
(b) Chance the gardener.
(c) Chance from the Old Man's house.
(d) Chance, as in luck.
13. Chance basically did two things in the Old Man's house. Those two things were what?
(a) Take care of the Old Man and tend the garden.
(b) Tend the garden and watch TV.
(c) Prepare his meals and tend the garden.
(d) Sit with Louise and chat and watch TV.
14. What does EE discover upon talking to Chance when he wakes up?
(a) That he has no wife or no family.
(b) That he was a gardener in the Old Man's house.
(c) That he was once married but his wife died.
(d) That he blames her for the accident.
15. The Old Man did not leave something behind before he died. What was it?
(a) A will.
(b) An autobiography.
(c) A burial plot.
(d) A suicide letter.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the woman explain her nickname?
2. Why did Chance think things would immediately change now that the Old Man was gone?
3. Where is Louise originally from?
4. What does Mr. Franklin initially tell Chance he needs to have to allow him to go on living in the house?
5. What does Chance do when Mr. Franklin gives him a piece of paper to read and sign?
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