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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Benjamin's father a bit uncertain about his son's request?
(a) There are no other shades of hair dye.
(b) Most boys do not wear long pants until age 14.
(c) A beard would make Benjamin look entirely too old.
(d) Mr. Button likes Benjamin's current hair style.

3. Who escorts Benjamin home from the train station after returning from war?
(a) His friends.
(b) His son.
(c) A brass band.
(d) His wife.

4. What is one way that Benjamin’s life does NOT change his senior year at Harvard?
(a) He decides to go on to graduate school.
(b) His classmates seem much older and more worldly than him.
(c) He struggles with his schoolwork.
(d) He does not make the football team.

5. Once upstairs, how does the nurse respond when Mr. Button mentions that he is Mr. Button?
(a) She is silent and in shock.
(b) She begins to cry.
(c) She faints.
(d) She chides him for what he has done to the hospital’s reputation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason Benjamin joins the army?

2. In Chapter VI, how many months later is it?

3. Why is it not made known that Hildegarde Moncrief is engaged to Benjamin Button?

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

5. What do other students do to Benjamin, because they believe he is an old man passing as a young college student?

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