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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. Which word best describes how Miss Fern and Miss Roberta feel?
(a) Unfazed
(b) Surprised
(c) Relieved
(d) Distressed
2. How much does Grandfather pay the boys for the dandelions they collect?
(a) 5 cents per bag
(b) 10 cents per bag
(c) 1 cent per dandelion
(d) 25 cents per bag
3. What makes Lena furious about the time Leo spent working on the Happiness Machine?
(a) That he wasted so many days
(b) That he missed his child's special events
(c) That he ignored her complaints
(d) The emotional turmoil it caused the family
4. How fast does the Green machine travel?
(a) 30 mph
(b) 5 mph
(c) 15 mph
(d) 20 mph
5. What is Tom relieved by when they return home?
(a) Douglas' sweat
(b) The ice cream he purchased
(c) Mother's cooking
(d) The sound of his father returning
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Mr. Bentley compare items from the past as?
2. In what year does this novel begin?
3. In what state does this novel take place?
4. What did Douglas want his father to buy him after they went to a movie?
5. What does Lena make sure is happening before she sends for the fire department?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Lena become reduced to tears after she uses the Happiness Machine that Leo built?
2. Which brother seems more like the father and in what way do they seem to be the same?
3. What is the overall tone of the opening of this novel and why do you believe that is the case?
4. How do Tom's fears come to surround him, make him feel, and expand into his imagination?
5. What revelation does Leo come to after the Happiness Machine burns?
6. What brings Douglas comfort after so many things that he loves have all changed and ended at once?
7. What is Leo having a difficult time resolving in his own mind that he discusses albeit briefly with Douglas?
8. How does Helen Bentley attempt to prove to the children that she was indeed once a child?
9. Why is Frank confused at the message that Douglas gives to him to relay to his sisters?
10. Name two examples where Douglas tried to cling to something in order to control destiny or change.
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