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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Chance tell Mrs. Aubrey that he does not need a doctor?
(a) His leg is all better.
(b) He feels he can take care of himself.
(c) He is offered an honorary doctor of law degree.
(d) He does not feel ill any longer.

2. When the man asks Chance if he wants to go upstairs, what are Chance's thoughts?
(a) He wonders if the man wants to also talk about books.
(b) He thinks the man is quite attractive.
(c) He is not sure if it is something he knows how to do.
(d) He hopes the man wants to go upstairs to watch television.

3. Who does Sulkin think Gardiner actually is?
(a) A Republican masquerading as a Democrat to get inside information.
(b) A German spy.
(c) A major leader of the American Communist Party preparing for a revolution.
(d) A leading member of an American elitist faction planning a coup d'etat.

4. What does EE discover about Chance after going through all of his belongings and asking him questions about his past?
(a) She discovers that his real name is Chance.
(b) She finds out how rich he really is.
(c) She finds out that he was really a gardener.
(d) She discovers nothing about him.

5. When Chance tells Mr. Rand that he's looking better, what does Mr. Rand tell him?
(a) That it's all make-up and he is a dying man.
(b) That he has made a miracle recovery.
(c) That he feels like a new man.
(d) That he is not afraid of death.

6. When Ambassador Skrapinov can get no information on Chance's background from the Special Section, what is his reaction?
(a) He cannot believe that Chance has no history.
(b) He is happy that there is no bad news to report on Chance.
(c) He accepts that Chance has no history and lets it go at that.
(d) He has the agent from the Special Section promoted.

7. Never having appeared on television before, what does Chance do?
(a) He gets very nervous and stumbles over his words.
(b) He makes a fool of himself by saying ridiculous things.
(c) He continues talking during commercials, not realizing there is a break in the show.
(d) He imitates what he has seen on TV many times before.

8. How much does Chance know about sex and childbirth?
(a) Everything that he has learned from the Old Man's magazines.
(b) Only what he has learned from a maintenance man and seen on television.
(c) He understands that childbirth comes before sex.
(d) He knows everything.

9. When Chance tells EE that he has been with a sick man upstairs during the dinner party, what does she think about Chance?
(a) He annoyed her because he left her to help someone.
(b) He wasted his time.
(c) He is lying.
(d) He is an angel to always be helping people.

10. What kind of feelings does Chance evoke in EE?
(a) The glories of love and selflessness.
(b) Depression and hopelessness.
(c) Feelings of sadness and aloneness.
(d) The feeling of freedom and self-revelation.

11. Who is coming to visit Mr. Rand at his home in Chapter 4?
(a) The Head of the Financial Institute.
(b) The Governor of New York.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) The Chief of Surgery from the Cleveland Clinic.

12. What was Chance watching on TV when the inspectors arrived?
(a) An old movie from the 1950s.
(b) The landing of the President's helicopter.
(c) A detective show.
(d) The Governor's limousine driving out of Albany.

13. What does EE make of Chance's reluctance to receive her advances?
(a) She cannot understand any of it and takes off in a huff.
(b) She thinks he prefers men to women.
(c) She is angry that he doesn't find her attractive.
(d) She believes he is a man of restraint and is waiting for her husband's death.

14. Where does EE ask Chance to accompany her the day after the dinner party?
(a) Denver.
(b) The Capitol Hill Ball.
(c) The Soviet Union.
(d) The United Nations Dinner.

15. What does Grunmann first suspect about Chance?
(a) That he plans to assasinate the President.
(b) That he is preparing a coup d'etat.
(c) That he might be an agent of a foreign power.
(d) That he is insane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gets Chance interested in the book Stiegler speaks of?

2. When Mrs. Aubrey tells Chance that the Wall Street Journal has predicted his appointment to a Financial Corporation Board and they would like a statement from him, what does Chance say?

3. What reason does Mr. Rand give the President for not being able to address the Financial Institute?

4. When EE compares Chance to European men, what image does that evoke for him?

5. When the President of the United States tries to get information on Chance from EE, what does his secretary report to him?

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