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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. What does Leo believe the Happiness Machine will quell?
(a) Unhappiness
(b) Demons of human existence
(c) Unemployment
(d) Death

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Charlie and John take Douglas to see?

2. What is considered Douglas and Tom's first rite of the summer?

3. What does Bill Forrester plan on doing that bothers Grandfather greatly?

4. Where does Douglas go with his brother Tom and his Father?

5. Why can't any of the children or towsnpeople remember a young Mrs. Bentley?

Short Essay Questions

1. Based on Tom's habit of keeping statistics, what idea does Douglas implement himself?

2. What is Leo having a difficult time resolving in his own mind that he discusses albeit briefly with Douglas?

3. How does Leo rationalize to a displeased Lena that the Happiness Machine is a necessity?

4. What does the Green Machine offer to Miss Fern and Miss Roberta that is suddenly taken away after the accident?

5. What revelation does Leo come to after the Happiness Machine burns?

6. What ruins Douglas' zest for life and desire to take in every new detail?

7. What ritual does Douglas take comfort in that relates to the adults in his life?

8. How does Douglas convince the shoe store owner to give him the new shoes and how does this process help the shoe store owner himself?

9. Why does Douglas' Grandfather become so upset at the idea of his neighbor replacing his grass with some that does not grow as fast?

10. What great secret does Douglas believe his father and Tom have already realized?

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