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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Leo and Lena argue about?
(a) Life in Green Town
(b) Replacement grass that does not need to be mowed
(c) Movies
(d) Happiness Machine

2. What surprise does John have for Douglas?
(a) He is moving
(b) He no longer wants to be Douglas's friend
(c) His father is dying
(d) He is getting married

3. Where is Father after Tom returns home with Grandfather?
(a) Looking for Douglas
(b) Lodge meeting
(c) Sitting on the porch
(d) In bed

4. How old is Mrs. Bentley?
(a) 72
(b) 65
(c) 89
(d) 91

5. Who does Douglas go hiking with?
(a) Tom
(b) Clara
(c) Frank
(d) John

6. What does Mother send Tom to purchase?
(a) Iron
(b) Ice cream
(c) Iced tea
(d) Cigars

7. Where does Douglas go while Grandfather takes Tom home?
(a) Ravine
(b) Movie house
(c) Leo's house
(d) Friends house

8. What does Leo deduce that he himself has been?
(a) Fool
(b) Great inventor
(c) Relieved of a huge burdeon
(d) At his happiest

9. What does Douglas suggest they should build?
(a) Cigar cutter
(b) Grape and wine picking machine
(c) New wine press
(d) Happiness machine

10. What does Douglas question about his friends?
(a) How they will spend the summer
(b) When they will come to a new sense of being
(c) Why they do not want to spend time with him
(d) Why they seem more alive

11. In what state does this novel take place?
(a) Illinois
(b) Iowa
(c) Idaho
(d) Indiana

12. What makes Lena furious about the time Leo spent working on the Happiness Machine?
(a) That he missed his child's special events
(b) That he wasted so many days
(c) That he ignored her complaints
(d) The emotional turmoil it caused the family

13. How are the children taken back in time?
(a) Through pictures
(b) Through hypnosis
(c) Through joined belief
(d) Through stories

14. What does Douglas offer to do to make up for the money he is short so that he will still be able to get the shoes?
(a) Collects dandelions
(b) Advertises with his friends about the shoes
(c) Runs errands
(d) Cleans the store

15. Which of the following words means about the same thing as the word distilled as it is used in the following sentence? The distilled brew will serve the family well.
(a) Collected
(b) Extracted
(c) Diluted
(d) Purified

Short Answer Questions

1. What is mother doing while Tom sits by the front door screen?

2. What does the time machine turn out to be?

3. What summer ritual do Douglas and Tom take part in?

4. How many days does Leo spend working on the Happiness Machine?

5. What rite does Douglas perform on the third day of summer?

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