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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason Benjamin joins the army?
(a) All of his friends are enlisting.
(b) He is drafted.
(c) He is unhappy at home with his wife.
(d) He is encouraged by his father.

2. How does the whole of society, including the General, feel about Hildegarde marrying a man of 50?
(a) So interesting.
(b) Such a loss.
(c) Quite appropriate.
(d) Such a good match.

3. Fifteen years after their marriage, how does high society now feel about the Benjamin Buttons?
(a) They still believe the marriage was a bad idea.
(b) They still make fun of him.
(c) They finally accept the couple.
(d) They still do not trust him.

4. Have Benjamin's feelings changed towards his wife?
(a) No, he loves her no matter how she looks.
(b) No, he loves how she has grown older and more mature.
(c) Yes, because she is aging.
(d) Yes, because she is unkind.

5. What does Benjamin NOT promise to continue doing, to get from his father what he has requested?
(a) Dying his hair.
(b) Pretending to be his age.
(c) Playing with boys his age.
(d) Enlist in the army.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the downside of all of Benjamin's social commitments?

2. Who escorts Benjamin home from the train station after returning from war?

3. Who starts to follow Benjamin on his way to the train station after Mr. Hart threw him out?

4. How does Mr. Button continue to try to make his elderly son act like a baby?

5. Who gives Benjamin the idea that he should go to Harvard?

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