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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What favor does Mr. Rand ask of Chance when he sees him after the program?
(a) He asks Chance to marry EE after he dies.
(b) He asks Chance how he'd never heard of him before.
(c) He asks Chance to escort EE to a United Nations reception.
(d) He asks Chance if he was nervous during the interview.

2. What does Sulkin of the Foreign Department show Skrapinov as a result of his investigation of Chauncey Gardiner?
(a) A full dossier on Gardiner's past with the CIA.
(b) A transcript of Chance's conversations with EE.
(c) A blank piece of paper.
(d) Only the details of the car accident Chance was in.

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

4. Why does Chance stare directly into the President's eyes when he meets him?
(a) He knows it is polite in society to look someone in the eye.
(b) He recalls that the President always looks straight into the eyes of the viewer on TV.
(c) He is nervous and does not know where else to look.
(d) He sees that the President's eyes are bloodshot.

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

6. How is Chance's TV appearance received by the audience?
(a) The TV station get many phone calls of complaint.
(b) He is asked by the audience to run for President.
(c) Most of them are excited and become more optimisitc about the economy.
(d) He receives a lot of booing from the audience.

7. 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 is not afraid of death.
(c) That he feels like a new man.
(d) That he has made a miracle recovery.

8. A woman at dinner sitting on Chance's left at dinner asks him about the war. What is his reply?
(a) The war is practically over.
(b) He has seen many wars on TV.
(c) He has served in war.
(d) War must lead to peace.

9. 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 that he was really a gardener.
(c) She discovers nothing about him.
(d) She finds out how rich he really is.

10. 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?
(a) He wants to speak with them now.
(b) He would rather be on television again.
(c) They will have to wait.
(d) That he cannot give them anything.

11. Why does Chance believe that the sense of sight is better than the sense of touch?
(a) Reading is done by sight, not touch.
(b) One can determine colors with sight but not with touch.
(c) The garden is for looking at, not for touching.
(d) Sight takes in everything at once while touch is limited to one area.

12. What does Grunmann tell the President about the Soviets?
(a) That Gardiner could be one of their spies.
(b) That Skrapinov has been insulted by Gardiner.
(c) That their curiosity about Gardiner has also turned up nothing.
(d) They are making progress on Gardiner's identity.

13. What does Sulkin think Gardiner's code name should be?
(a) "Blank page."
(b) "Garden."
(c) "Krylov."
(d) "Comrade fable."

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

15. What gets Chance interested in the book Stiegler speaks of?
(a) Stiegler compares publishing to television.
(b) Stiegler compares publishing to a garden.
(c) Chance never gets interested in the book.
(d) Stiegler tells Chance that books are like television.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the U.N. reception, where does EE take Chance?

2. When EE tries to seduce Chance in his bedroom, what is his first reaction?

3. When Chance accepts an invitation to appear on a live TV show, what are his thoughts?

4. What does Chance say to Mrs. Aubrey when she tells him about all of the people who want interviews with him?

5. What does Chance's supposed code name remind Skrapinov of?

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