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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the nurse suggest that Mr. Button do, so he can take his son home?
(a) Call a cab.
(b) Go shopping for clothes for him.
(c) Calm him down.
(d) Talk some sense into him.

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

3. Before he hurries out of the hospital, for what does Mr. Button's son ask?
(a) A cigar.
(b) A cane.
(c) Candy.
(d) Milk.

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

5. What is the socioeconomic status of the Mr. Button and his family?
(a) Working class.
(b) Poor.
(c) Middle class.
(d) Upper class.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter I, the narrator states how unusual it is for a baby to be born in 1860 where?

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

4. In which period does this story begin?

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

(see the answer key)

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