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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what way does Chance think that plants are like people?
(a) Both can be compared to television.
(b) Both need care to be happy and healthy.
(c) Both need very little care to thrive.
(d) Both have goals and dreams.

3. Why couldn't Chance leave the Old Man's house or go beyond the garden gate?
(a) He had some sort of brain damage.
(b) He couldn't walk very well.
(c) He did not speak English.
(d) He had no money of his own.

4. The Old Man did not leave something behind before he died. What was it?
(a) A suicide letter.
(b) A burial plot.
(c) A will.
(d) An autobiography.

5. How long has Chance known Louise, the maid?
(a) For ten years.
(b) He barely remembers Louise.
(c) Since she arrived at the house 5 years ago.
(d) Ever since he was a little boy.

6. What clothes did Chance change into when he learned he had a visitor?
(a) His best suit and a pair of large sunglasses.
(b) A white shirt and black pants.
(c) A pair of jeans and a hat.
(d) His gardening clothes.

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

8. When Chance looks in the large hall mirror, what does he see?
(a) How ugly he's become.
(b) A young boy.
(c) That he's all grown up.
(d) Nothing.

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

10. Mr. Rand believes that Chance has found the perfect metaphor for a productive businessman when Chance describes:
(a) A productive garden.
(b) The Old Man's law firm.
(c) His financial approach.
(d) A good television program.

11. Where was the Old Man in the bedroom?
(a) Sitting beside a window.
(b) On the floor.
(c) Under the bed, feet sticking out.
(d) On his bed with only one eye open.

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

13. 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.

14. What does Chance insist he has done all of his life?
(a) Cooked all of the Old Man's meals.
(b) Fixed televisions.
(c) Been a gardener living in the house.
(d) Read many, many books.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chance do the morning after Mr. Franklin's visit?

2. When Chance refers to the "room upstairs", he refers to the room he is presently occupying. What does Mr. Rand believe he means?

3. What is the name of the woman from the car?

4. What is Chance's reaction when Mr. Franklin asks him what his name is?

5. What does Chance notice in the back seat of EE's limousine, above the bar?

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