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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 have a difficult time resolving the dynamics between?
(a) Man and Woman
(b) Nature and Man
(c) Man and machine
(d) Night and day

2. What rite does Douglas perform on the third day of summer?
(a) Remounting the porch swing
(b) Going for a nightly stroll
(c) Building a happiness machine
(d) Buying a cigar at the cigar shop

3. What does Douglas believe will happen if he gets new sneakers?
(a) They will make him faster
(b) They will make him popular
(c) They will help him get more dandelions
(d) They will keep his senses alive

4. What does the time machine turn out to be?
(a) A library
(b) A movie theater
(c) A cardboard box
(d) An elderly person

5. What does Tom do as Douglas is contemplating his thoughts about the Thing?
(a) Runs away and calls for Douglas to chase him
(b) Steals his bucket full of fruit
(c) Knocks over his bucket full of fruit
(d) Jumps on him for a fight

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Miss Fern and Miss Roberta do to the Green Machine?

2. What does Leo deduce that he himself has been?

3. Where does Douglas record his time traveling encounter?

4. Where do Miss Fern and Miss Roberta hide?

5. Who witnessed the event where the Green Machine ran over the someone?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Frank confused at the message that Douglas gives to him to relay to his sisters?

3. Name two examples where Douglas tried to cling to something in order to control destiny or change.

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

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

6. How does Helen Bentley attempt to prove to the children that she was indeed once a child?

7. How and why is Colonel Freeleigh a real time machine, though not a mechanical contraption?

8. What do Douglas and his father experience very differently and provide one example of how they see the same event quite differently?

9. What is the overall tone of the opening of this novel and why do you believe that is the case?

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

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