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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is convinced that Benjamin is a young boy?
(a) Only the very young and old.
(b) His mother.
(c) His friends at school.
(d) No one.

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

3. In which period does this story begin?
(a) The Civil War period.
(b) The antebellum period.
(c) The Reconstruction Era.
(d) The Interwar Era.

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

5. Why does Mr. Button hope the baby will be a boy?
(a) So he can take over the family business.
(b) So he can send him to Yale.
(c) Because he prefers boys to girls.
(d) So he can make him his junior.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Mr. Hart believe that Benjamin is 18?

2. When does Mr. Button need to take his son home from the hospital?

3. What happens when Benjamin's father sends him to Yale to take his entrance exams?

4. Why does Benjamin decide to attend Harvard?

5. What does Mr. Button see upon entering the crying-room?

(see the answer key)

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