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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Mr. Button approaches the nurse at the front desk and mentions his name, how does she react?
(a) She begins to cry and tells Mr. Button that he could go upstairs to see his child.
(b) She faints.
(c) She looks frightened and shrieks that Mr. Button could go upstairs to see his child.
(d) She begins to giggle and shouts that Mr. Button could go upstairs to see his child.

2. When left alone in Chapter III, what does Benjamin do?
(a) Smokes his father's cigars.
(b) Sings himself to sleep.
(c) Reads the children's books he finds in the nursery.
(d) Plays with toy trains.

3. Why is Mr. Button in a panic about taking his son home from the hospital?
(a) He has never held a newborn baby before.
(b) He has nowhere for him to sleep.
(c) He is not sure what to feed him.
(d) He does not know how he can walk through the streets and introduce this old man as his newborn son.

4. How does Mr. Button react when he sees Dr. Keene?
(a) He skips up to him.
(b) He hurries away from him.
(c) He runs to him.
(d) He slowly walks over to him.

5. In all the journals, Benjamin begins to be known as what?
(a) The Oddity.
(b) The Brute of Baltimore.
(c) The Mystery Man of Maryland.
(d) The Curiosity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Button threaten to do, if his son does not put the new suit on?

2. What war breaks out that is good for the Buttons?

3. Why is the clerk surprised at the suit Mr. Button chooses for his son?

4. In whose hands does Mr. Button say the the future is?

5. How does Benjamin feel when he finally meets Hildegarde?

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