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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. How does the children's disbelief make Helen feel?
(a) Amused
(b) Relieved
(c) Upset
(d) Suprised
2. Which of the following words would Douglas use to describe Green Town?
(a) Unpredictable
(b) Surprising
(c) Magical
(d) Routine
3. What does Grandfather need to press with the dandelions Douglas and his brother collect?
(a) Wild strawberries
(b) Fresh rainwater
(c) Mint leaves
(d) Fox grapes
4. What do Miss Fern and Miss Roberta hide?
(a) Happiness Machine
(b) Love Machine
(c) Green Machine
(d) Time Machine
5. How often does Douglas spend the night with his grandparents?
(a) One
(b) Seven
(c) Five
(d) Two
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Douglas use to begin to appreciate his surroundings?
2. What does Douglas like to think of John as?
3. How does Tom feel as he and his mother approach the ravine?
4. What summer first does Grandfather look forward to and relish?
5. What does Mrs. Bentley feel was stolen away by the children not believing that she was once young and pretty?
Short Essay Questions
1. Name two examples where Douglas tried to cling to something in order to control destiny or change.
2. Why does Lena become reduced to tears after she uses the Happiness Machine that Leo built?
3. Describe a typical summer night for Douglas' family.
4. In what ways was the fact that change is difficult for children reinforced in this section of the novel?
5. How and why is Colonel Freeleigh a real time machine, though not a mechanical contraption?
6. Which brother seems more like the father and in what way do they seem to be the same?
7. What do Douglas and his father experience very differently and provide one example of how they see the same event quite differently?
8. What ritual does Douglas take comfort in that relates to the adults in his life?
9. How do Tom's fears come to surround him, make him feel, and expand into his imagination?
10. Describe how Douglas feels as he completes the task for his grandfather and describe what the tasks are.
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