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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 season is it as the novel opens?
(a) Winter
(b) Summer
(c) Fall
(d) Spring
2. What habit of Tom's gives Douglas an idea?
(a) Keeping statistics
(b) Gathering dandelions
(c) Collecting rainwater
(d) Running through the meadow
3. What did Mr. Bentley compare items from the past as?
(a) Toys
(b) Magic tricks
(c) Momentos
(d) Treasures
4. Why does Mother grow anxious when Tom returns from the store?
(a) Father is not home yet
(b) The Lonely One is around
(c) Douglas is not home yet
(d) She believes she forgot to unplug the iron
5. What does Leo believe machines end up being used for?
(a) Surprises
(b) Happiness
(c) Destructive purposes
(d) Angry purposes
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Grandfather need to press with the dandelions Douglas and his brother collect?
2. What color is associated with the trolley?
3. Which of the following characters first tried the machine after Leo announced it was finished?
4. What does Leo believe the Happiness Machine will quell?
5. What emotion does Douglas feel once John leaves?
Short Essay Questions
1. Which brother seems more like the father and in what way do they seem to be the same?
2. Based on Tom's habit of keeping statistics, what idea does Douglas implement himself?
3. What ruins Douglas' zest for life and desire to take in every new detail?
4. How does Helen Bentley attempt to prove to the children that she was indeed once a child?
5. What ritual does Douglas take comfort in that relates to the adults in his life?
6. How does Leo rationalize to a displeased Lena that the Happiness Machine is a necessity?
7. How do Tom's fears come to surround him, make him feel, and expand into his imagination?
8. What brings Douglas comfort after so many things that he loves have all changed and ended at once?
9. 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?
10. What can be said that Leo has tampered with when he follows through on building the Happiness Machine?
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