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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. Why does Mother grow anxious when Tom returns from the store?
(a) The Lonely One is around
(b) Douglas is not home yet
(c) Father is not home yet
(d) She believes she forgot to unplug the iron

2. What does Leo believe machines end up being used for?
(a) Destructive purposes
(b) Angry purposes
(c) Happiness
(d) Surprises

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

4. How many parts does Douglas decide to keep track of his summer in?
(a) 3
(b) 1
(c) 2
(d) 5

5. What do Miss Fern and Miss Roberta hide?
(a) Green Machine
(b) Happiness Machine
(c) Love Machine
(d) Time Machine

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Douglas record his time traveling encounter?

2. What color is associated with the trolley?

3. How does the children's disbelief make Helen feel?

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

5. What rite does Douglas perform on the third day of summer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How do Tom's fears come to surround him, make him feel, and expand into his imagination?

6. What ritual does Douglas take comfort in that relates to the adults in his life?

7. What does the Green Machine offer to Miss Fern and Miss Roberta that is suddenly taken away after the accident?

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

9. Why does Douglas suggest that he and John spend the time alone in a haystack doing nothing?

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

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