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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Chance go after taking his leave of the lawyer and his assistant?
(a) To his room to watch a TV show.
(b) He makes a telephone call to a lawyer.
(c) To the garden to work.
(d) To the kitchen to make a sandwich.

2. What does Mr. Franklin inform Chance will happen the next day by noon?
(a) He will be moved up to live in the Old Man's bedroom.
(b) The doors to the house and gates to the garden will be locked.
(c) The house willl be under construction for renovations.
(d) He will be served with a warrant for his arrest.

3. What does Mr. Franklin initially tell Chance he needs to have to allow him to go on living in the house?
(a) A written essay outlining the past twenty five years.
(b) Photos of him and the Old Man together.
(c) Some proof of his identity and his employment.
(d) A certified letter from the Old Man.

4. As EE discloses her private information, how does Chance react?
(a) He repeats some parts of her sentences as he has seen done on TV.
(b) He begins to cry at times.
(c) He tries to change the subject as he has seen done on TV.
(d) He turns on the TV so he does not have to listen.

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

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

7. What did Chance do upon entering the Old Man's bedroom and seeing him dead upon the bed?
(a) He went over to the maid and hugged her.
(b) He fainted and fell to the floor.
(c) He began to cry.
(d) He looked at the Old Man and stared into his face.

8. What do readers know about the fat maid?
(a) She is from another country and doesn't understand what is said on TV.
(b) She sits and reads to Chance every night.
(c) She watches TV with Chance.
(d) She was once married to the Old Man.

9. What is Chance's reaction when Mr. Franklin asks him what his name is?
(a) He is happy.
(b) He is suspicious.
(c) He is very surprised.
(d) He is uneasy.

10. What was the Old Man's former profession?
(a) He was a lawyer.
(b) He owned a landscaping company.
(c) He was an accountant.
(d) He was a wealthy investor.

11. What does Chance realize he cannot reveal while looking over the paper?
(a) That he is responsible for the Old Man's death.
(b) That he cannot read or write.
(c) That he will never leave the house.
(d) That he already knows what is written there.

12. Who taught Chance how to tend the garden?
(a) A tall black man who once worked there.
(b) A kind next door neighbor.
(c) The Old Man.
(d) A professional gardening company.

13. What did the Old Man's bedroom look like?
(a) It had photos of Chance on evey wall.
(b) It had nearly no furniture or books in it.
(c) It had a very high ceiling and built-in bookshelves.
(d) It was small and cozy.

14. What does EE discover upon talking to Chance when he wakes up?
(a) That he blames her for the accident.
(b) That he was a gardener in the Old Man's house.
(c) That he has no wife or no family.
(d) That he was once married but his wife died.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. When the doctor gets an injection ready to ease Chance's pain, what are Chance's thoughts?

5. What does Mr. Rand ask Chance to think over?

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