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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 of the following terms is an antonym for the term jubilant?
(a) Euphoric
(b) Delighted
(c) Triumphant
(d) Disappointed

2. What does Douglas' father speak about the wonders of?
(a) Life
(b) Animals
(c) Death
(d) Nature

3. Where does Douglas go with his brother Tom and his Father?
(a) Junk yard
(b) Meadow
(c) Town
(d) Forest

4. Where do Miss Fern and Miss Roberta hide?
(a) Church
(b) Attic
(c) Basement
(d) Porch

5. Where do the men and boys gather on many of the summer nights?
(a) Ravine
(b) Porches
(c) Meadow
(d) Kitchens

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lena make sure is happening before she sends for the fire department?

2. Where is Father after Tom returns home with Grandfather?

3. What does the time machine turn out to be?

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

5. Why does Mother grow anxious when Tom returns from the store?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Helen overcome her exasperation at the children not being able to accept the fact that she was once young?

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

3. 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?

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

5. Which brother seems more like the father and in what way do they seem to be the same?

6. Why did the accident with Mr. Quartermain distress Miss Fern and Miss Roberta so much?

7. What portion of this section of the novel is the best example of the division between the elderly and the young?

8. Why does Lena become reduced to tears after she uses the Happiness Machine that Leo built?

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

10. What can be said that Leo has tampered with when he follows through on building the Happiness Machine?

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