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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Miss Fern and Miss Roberta hide?
(a) Love Machine
(b) Happiness Machine
(c) Time Machine
(d) Green Machine

2. Which word best describes how Miss Fern and Miss Roberta feel?
(a) Distressed
(b) Surprised
(c) Unfazed
(d) Relieved

3. What does Helen Bentley purchase for a group of children?
(a) Candy
(b) Sneakers
(c) Rugs
(d) Ice cream

4. What divides Green Town into two?
(a) Ravine
(b) River
(c) Mountain
(d) Railroad tracks

5. Where do many of the women work and chat on the summer nights?
(a) Kitchens
(b) Porches
(c) Meadows
(d) Forest

6. What does Tom say would not belong in a Happiness Machine?
(a) Fear
(b) Ravine at night
(c) The lonely one
(d) Ironing

7. How much more money does Douglas need to buy the new sneakers himself?
(a) One dollar
(b) One dollar and ten cents
(c) Twenty-five cents
(d) Fifty cents

8. How often does Douglas spend the night with his grandparents?
(a) Five
(b) One
(c) Two
(d) Seven

9. What does Mrs. Bentley feel was stolen away by the children not believing that she was once young and pretty?
(a) Her life
(b) Her childhood
(c) Her memories
(d) Her posessions

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

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

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

13. In what year does this novel begin?
(a) 1910
(b) 1940
(c) 1928
(d) 1950

14. What is mother doing while Tom sits by the front door screen?
(a) Sewing
(b) Ironing
(c) Sweeping
(d) Cooking

15. Which of the following characters did the Green Machine run over?
(a) Quartermain
(b) Freeleigh
(c) Tom
(d) Douglas

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the trolley conductor take the boys on the last day the trolley is to run?

2. 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?

3. Where do Miss Fern and Miss Roberta hide?

4. Which of the following words would Douglas use to describe Green Town?

5. What does Douglas test John on in the hopes that John will remember Douglas for a long time?

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