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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the tailor respond when Benjamin takes his cap and uniform to him to be altered?
(a) He finds it amusing that Benjamin wants to play soldier.
(b) He is irritated by Benjamin and his demand to have the uniform tailored.
(c) He refuses to tailor the uniform.
(d) He argues with Benjamin over the uniform.

2. How has Hildegarde’s personality grown old?
(a) The woman who once dragged Benjamin to parties and dances now wants to stay home.
(b) She is often absent-minded.
(c) The woman who once never thought about anyone else spends her days gossiping about all her neighbors.
(d) She has become easily irritated and negative.

3. What mistake does Benjamin know to never make while at Harvard?
(a) Join the football team.
(b) Grow too close to others.
(c) Contact his son.
(d) Tell anyone how old he really is.

4. What had Benjamin hoped about his peculiar aging process?
(a) It would continue.
(b) It would slow down.
(c) It would right itself once he looked the age he was.
(d) It would speed up.

5. In Chapter VII, how are Hildegard’s friends who are concerned about her marriage wrong in one way?
(a) Hildegarde does not mind her husband's condition.
(b) The wholesale business was very successful.
(c) Her marriage is very successful and happy.
(d) Benjamin's growth evens out and becomes normal aging.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason Roscoe gives Benjamin for why he will not enroll him in the preparatory school?

2. When left alone in Chapter III, what does Benjamin do?

3. When asked again how old his son is, what is Mr. Button's reply?

4. In what year does Benjamin give over his company to his son Roscoe and enter Harvard University as a freshman?

5. How long does it take society to remember the events surrounding Benjamin’s birth and wild rumors began to fly,

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