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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 is mother doing while Tom sits by the front door screen?
(a) Sweeping
(b) Cooking
(c) Ironing
(d) Sewing
2. Which of the following words means about the same thing as the word distilled as it is used in the following sentence?
The distilled brew will serve the family well.
(a) Diluted
(b) Collected
(c) Purified
(d) Extracted
3. How is Frank related to Miss Fern and Miss Roberta?
(a) Son
(b) Cousin
(c) Brother
(d) Father
4. Which of the following characters first tried the machine after Leo announced it was finished?
(a) Douglas
(b) Saul
(c) Lena
(d) Tom
5. Why does Douglas' sense of excitement become lackluster when he is with his friends?
(a) He likes their shoes more than his own
(b) He cannot keep up with them
(c) They make fun of his shoes
(d) No one tlaks to him
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following did Lena not see when she was in the Happiness Machine?
2. What does Helen do with most of her possessions after deciding to live only in the present?
3. What does Douglas like to think of John as?
4. What does Grandfather need to press with the dandelions Douglas and his brother collect?
5. What does Bill Forrester plan on doing that bothers Grandfather greatly?
Short Essay Questions
1. What revelation does Leo come to after the Happiness Machine burns?
2. Why is Frank confused at the message that Douglas gives to him to relay to his sisters?
3. What is the overall tone of the opening of this novel and why do you believe that is the case?
4. What great secret does Douglas believe his father and Tom have already realized?
5. Based on Tom's habit of keeping statistics, what idea does Douglas implement himself?
6. Describe how Douglas feels as he completes the task for his grandfather and describe what the tasks are.
7. What can be said that Leo has tampered with when he follows through on building the Happiness Machine?
8. How and why is Colonel Freeleigh a real time machine, though not a mechanical contraption?
9. Why did the accident with Mr. Quartermain distress Miss Fern and Miss Roberta so much?
10. Describe a typical summer night for Douglas' family.
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