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

2. What is Tom relieved by when they return home?
(a) Douglas' sweat
(b) Mother's cooking
(c) The sound of his father returning
(d) The ice cream he purchased

3. What did Douglas want his father to buy him after they went to a movie?
(a) Jeans
(b) Ice cream cone
(c) Sneakers
(d) Candy

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

5. Which of the following characters is the conductor of the trolley?
(a) Fern
(b) Freeleigh
(c) Tridden
(d) Frank

Short Answer Questions

1. How fast does the Green machine travel?

2. What does Douglas use to begin to appreciate his surroundings?

3. What does Douglas question about his friends?

4. What is the dandelion wine used for during the winter?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Douglas believe that he must get new sneakers to keep his new found sense of aliveness?

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

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

6. Describe how Douglas feels as he completes the task for his grandfather and describe what the tasks are.

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

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

9. What does the beating of the rugs symbolize to Douglas and Tom both?

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

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