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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. How much does Grandfather pay the boys for the dandelions they collect?
(a) 5 cents per bag
(b) 10 cents per bag
(c) 25 cents per bag
(d) 1 cent per dandelion

2. Which category of his summer did Douglas decide remounting the porch swing with his grandfather fell into?
(a) Rites
(b) New Discoveries
(c) Cermonies
(d) Revelations

3. What does Douglas like to think of John as?
(a) God
(b) Serpant
(c) Obnoxious
(d) Hero

4. What divides Green Town into two?
(a) Railroad tracks
(b) River
(c) Mountain
(d) Ravine

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who witnessed the event where the Green Machine ran over the someone?

3. What makes Lena furious about the time Leo spent working on the Happiness Machine?

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

5. What emotion does Douglas feel once John leaves?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe, in detail, the major themes focused on within this section of reading.

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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