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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 Douglas test John on in the hopes that John will remember Douglas for a long time?
(a) Type of sneaker
(b) Favorite food
(c) Eye color
(d) Best memory they shared

2. What season is it as the novel opens?
(a) Spring
(b) Summer
(c) Fall
(d) Winter

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

4. What summer first does Grandfather look forward to and relish?
(a) Waking to the sound of a lawn mower
(b) Making dandelion wine
(c) Big family breakfasts
(d) The smell of flowers and the sounds of birds

5. What does mother call the specter of death?
(a) Grim Reaper
(b) Odin
(c) Grim
(d) Lonely One

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leo believe the Happiness Machine will quell?

2. What did Douglas want his father to buy him after they went to a movie?

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

4. How does Douglas feel about the trolley being retired?

5. Where does Douglas record his time traveling encounter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What new revelation does Douglas come to by dividing up his summer?

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

6. In what ways was the fact that change is difficult for children reinforced in this section of the novel?

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

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

9. Describe a typical summer night for Douglas' family.

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

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