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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter IV, the narrator states that not much of significance happens between which of Benjamin’s birthdays?
(a) 5th and 12.
(b) 8th and 10th.
(c) 18th and 21st.
(d) 12th and 21st.

3. Why is war good for the Buttons?
(a) Mr. Button can enlist.
(b) They can send Benjamin to fight in it.
(c) They can make a profit off of it.
(d) Much of society is distracted, so they can more easily hide the fact their infant son was born an elderly man.

4. 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 is not sure what to feed him.
(c) He has never held a newborn baby before.
(d) He does not know how he can walk through the streets and introduce this old man as his newborn son.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Benjamin regularly break items around the house?

4. In 1860, where are most babies born?

5. What is Benjamin's dilemma when he is to meet with the college registrar, Mr. Hart?

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