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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the age of five, what is Benjamin forced to do?
(a) Move into a home for the aging.
(b) Leave home.
(c) Have a surgery.
(d) Attend kindergarten.

2. In Chapter I, the narrator states how unusual it is for a baby to be born in 1860 where?
(a) A barn.
(b) A bedroom.
(c) In a hospital.
(d) At home.

3. How does Dr. Keene seem when Mr. Button asks about his wife and child?
(a) Elated.
(b) Concerned.
(c) Irritated.
(d) Sad.

4. What does Mr. Button assume has happened, regarding his child and what he sees in the crying-room?
(a) A prank has been played on him.
(b) He is having a nightmare.
(c) The nurse is confused.
(d) His child has been accidentally switched with someone else's.

5. What does Mr. Button say, in Chapter II, he will call his son?
(a) Abraham.
(b) Noah.
(c) Benjamin.
(d) Methuselah.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 18, how old does Benjamin look?

2. Why is the clerk surprised at the suit Mr. Button chooses for his son?

3. In 1860, where are most babies born?

4. What does Benjamin NOT promise to continue doing, to get from his father what he has requested?

5. In which period does this story begin?

(see the answer key)

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