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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 - 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Mr. Button dressed the day his wife gives birth?
(a) Impeccably.
(b) In pajamas.
(c) Disheveled.
(d) In his smoking jacket.

2. When they first meet in the hospital crying room, what does Mr. Button's son threaten to do?
(a) Take off the itchy blanket wrapped around him.
(b) Leave the hospital alone.
(c) Scream and cry.
(d) Stay in the hospital forever.

3. Who starts to follow Benjamin on his way to the train station after Mr. Hart threw him out?
(a) College professors.
(b) Small children.
(c) A pack of wolves.
(d) A mob of students and other community members.

4. Instead of playing with the items his father brings home, what does Benjamin do?
(a) He reads his mother's magazines.
(b) He writes telegraph messages to his grandfather.
(c) He calls his friends on the telephone.
(d) He reads the encyclopedia.

5. Why do Benjamin and his grandfather become great friends?
(a) They both like cigars.
(b) They each have no one else to talk to.
(c) They enjoy discussing the events of the day.
(d) They both know a great deal about history.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once upstairs, how does the nurse respond when Mr. Button mentions that he is Mr. Button?

2. In Chapter IV, the narrator states that not much of significance happens between which of Benjamin’s birthdays?

3. By 18, how old does Benjamin look?

4. How does Dr. Keene seem when Mr. Button asks about his wife and child?

5. What does Mr. Button NOT bring home for Benjamin in Chapter III?

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