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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When Chance is asked to come up to the study, what is the name of woman he meets?
(a) Miss Thompson.
(b) Miss Franklin.
(c) Miss Hayes.
(d) Mrs. O'Hara.
2. Why couldn't Chance leave the Old Man's house or go beyond the garden gate?
(a) He did not speak English.
(b) He had no money of his own.
(c) He had some sort of brain damage.
(d) He couldn't walk very well.
3. When Chance refers to the "room upstairs", he refers to the room he is presently occupying. What does Mr. Rand believe he means?
(a) The room in the Old Man's house.
(b) Heaven.
(c) The presidency.
(d) The roof of the house.
4. What does Chance do when Mr. Franklin gives him a piece of paper to read and sign?
(a) He imitates what he's seen people on TV do when they found themselves in a similar situation.
(b) He begins to cry because he cannot read it.
(c) He reads the paper aloud.
(d) He takes the paper and gets frustrated, ripping it into pieces.
5. What is the name of the woman from the car?
(a) Mrs. Eve Gardiner.
(b) Mrs. Randall Benjamin.
(c) Mrs. Benjamin Rand.
(d) Mrs. Ellen Harris.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Chance changed the channel on the TV, what did he believe he could do?
2. What clothes did Chance change into when he learned he had a visitor?
3. What does Mr. Franklin first ask Chance?
4. What happens to Chance soon after he begins walking around?
5. What is Chance's reaction when Mr. Franklin asks him is he intends to make a claim against the estate?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Chance goes upstairs to the study in Chapter 2, who is waiting for him there and what do they want?
2. What is the maid's reaction to the Old Man's death in Chapter 1?
3. In Chapter 3, Chance has second thoughts about leaving the house. Where does he go?
4. What surprises Chance about the outside world once he has left the Old Man's home?
5. Why can't the new maid in the Old Man's house vouch for Chance belonging there?
6. In Chapter 1, in what way does Chance feel safe and secure in the garden?
7. Why does Chance wear sunglasses to meet with the lawyer and his assistant?
8. After reading Chapter One, do you believe that Chance has the capacity to feel emotion?
9. Why does Chance pretend to be able to read the paper that the lawyer gives him to sign?
10. In Chapter 1, readers understand that Chance does exactly as he is told by the Old Man? Why is this?
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