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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 does Douglas feel about the trolley being retired?
(a) Relieved
(b) Disgusted
(c) Excited
(d) Upset
2. What does Douglas find contentment in on Grandfather's porch?
(a) Sounds of the crickets
(b) Brother's love
(c) Adults' presence and chatter
(d) Catching lightning bugs
3. What does Leo believe the Happiness Machine will quell?
(a) Unemployment
(b) Unhappiness
(c) Demons of human existence
(d) Death
4. What does Douglas like to think of John as?
(a) Obnoxious
(b) God
(c) Serpant
(d) Hero
5. What is the dandelion wine used for during the winter?
(a) Cure for the winter blues
(b) Christmas presents
(c) To trade for other supplies
(d) Medication
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following characters believes that a sandwich outdoors tastes different from indoors?
2. What is Tom relieved by when they return home?
3. What do Charlie and John take Douglas to see?
4. How many days does Leo spend working on the Happiness Machine?
5. Why does Mother grow anxious when Tom returns from the store?
Short Essay Questions
1. What ritual does Douglas take comfort in that relates to the adults in his life?
2. What great secret does Douglas believe his father and Tom have already realized?
3. Describe a typical summer night for Douglas' family.
4. Why is Frank confused at the message that Douglas gives to him to relay to his sisters?
5. What new revelation does Douglas come to by dividing up his summer?
6. What can be said that Leo has tampered with when he follows through on building the Happiness Machine?
7. What do Douglas and his father experience very differently and provide one example of how they see the same event quite differently?
8. What does the beating of the rugs symbolize to Douglas and Tom both?
9. Why does Lena become reduced to tears after she uses the Happiness Machine that Leo built?
10. Why does Douglas believe that he must get new sneakers to keep his new found sense of aliveness?
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