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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 mother call the specter of death?
(a) Grim
(b) Odin
(c) Grim Reaper
(d) Lonely One
2. How fast does the Green machine travel?
(a) 15 mph
(b) 20 mph
(c) 5 mph
(d) 30 mph
3. Where do many of the women work and chat on the summer nights?
(a) Porches
(b) Kitchens
(c) Meadows
(d) Forest
4. Where does Douglas go with his brother Tom and his Father?
(a) Junk yard
(b) Meadow
(c) Forest
(d) Town
5. What rite does Douglas perform on the third day of summer?
(a) Remounting the porch swing
(b) Going for a nightly stroll
(c) Building a happiness machine
(d) Buying a cigar at the cigar shop
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the Happiness Machine actually result in?
2. What does Mrs. Bentley feel was stolen away by the children not believing that she was once young and pretty?
3. Which of the following doesn't Helen show to the children?
4. What is going to replace the trolley?
5. What does Douglas' father speak about the wonders of?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How does Leo rationalize to a displeased Lena that the Happiness Machine is a necessity?
3. What can be said that Leo has tampered with when he follows through on building the Happiness Machine?
4. What revelation does Leo come to after the Happiness Machine burns?
5. Why is Frank confused at the message that Douglas gives to him to relay to his sisters?
6. What is the overall tone of the opening of this novel and why do you believe that is the case?
7. What portion of this section of the novel is the best example of the division between the elderly and the young?
8. How did Helen overcome her exasperation at the children not being able to accept the fact that she was once young?
9. What great secret does Douglas believe his father and Tom have already realized?
10. Describe, in detail, the major themes focused on within this section of reading.
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