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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 does Mr. Button continue to try to make his elderly son act like a baby?
(a) By forcing him to sit on his lap in a rocking chair.
(b) By forcing him to play with rattles and drink milk.
(c) By forcing him to say, "Goo goo gah gah."
(d) By forcing him to listen to his father sing nursery rhymes.

2. Why does Benjamin's kindergarten teacher want him out of her class?
(a) He is a troublemaker.
(b) He reeks of cigar smoke.
(c) He regularly drifts off to sleep.
(d) He is learning nothing and distracts the other children.

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

4. How does Mr. Button feel when he sees the fancy suit on display?
(a) He cheers up.
(b) He is embarassed.
(c) He is filled with dread.
(d) He is at his wits' end.

5. Why is Mr. Button in a panic about taking his son home from the hospital?
(a) He is not sure what to feed him.
(b) He has nowhere for him to sleep.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When they first meet in the hospital crying room, what does Mr. Button's son threaten to do?

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

3. How does the narrator describe Benjamin's height?

4. What is the socioeconomic status of the Mr. Button and his family?

5. Is Benjamin able to find cases like his in medical journals?

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