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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) In pajamas.
(b) In his smoking jacket.
(c) Impeccably.
(d) Disheveled.

2. What does Mr. Button NOT bring home for Benjamin in Chapter III?
(a) Toy trains.
(b) Activities for grown men.
(c) Stuffed animals.
(d) Toy soldiers.

3. What war breaks out that is good for the Buttons?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The French and Indian War.

4. Instead of playing with the items his father brings home, what does Benjamin do?
(a) He writes telegraph messages to his grandfather.
(b) He reads his mother's magazines.
(c) He calls his friends on the telephone.
(d) He reads the encyclopedia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Benjamin manage to get to the train safely?

2. What does Mr. Button do to try to fix his son's appearance after putting him in the new suit?

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

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

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

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