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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Benjamin decide to attend Harvard?
(a) He wants revenge on the mob and on Yale.
(b) He will get more scholarship money at Harvard.
(c) His father went to Harvard.
(d) Harvard is a better school than Yale.

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

3. How old does Mr. Buttons' son appear to be?
(a) 70.
(b) 17.
(c) 60.
(d) 7 hours.

4. What does Mr. Button threaten to do, if his son does not put the new suit on?
(a) Drop him off at an orphanage.
(b) Spank him.
(c) Leave him at a home for the aging.
(d) Leave him at the hospital.

5. How does Benjamin manage to get to the train safely?
(a) He is escorted by the police.
(b) He runs.
(c) He hails a cab.
(d) He takes a shortcut.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mr. Button's son react to the suit his father has purchased for him?

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

3. Where do the Buttons live?

4. Before he hurries out of the hospital, for what does Mr. Button's son ask?

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

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