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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 use to begin to appreciate his surroundings?
(a) Father's words
(b) Senses
(c) Tom's adventure
(d) Flavors of mint and pinesap

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

3. How often does Douglas spend the night with his grandparents?
(a) Two
(b) One
(c) Five
(d) Seven

4. What does Mother send Tom to purchase?
(a) Cigars
(b) Iced tea
(c) Ice cream
(d) Iron

5. How fast does the Green machine travel?
(a) 5 mph
(b) 20 mph
(c) 15 mph
(d) 30 mph

Short Answer Questions

1. What divides Green Town into two?

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

3. What is mother doing while Tom sits by the front door screen?

4. How does Lena feel about the idea of the Happiness Machine?

5. How many days does Leo spend working on the Happiness Machine?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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