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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dr. Keene's response when Mr. Button asks about his wife and child?
(a) He tells him to go see for himself.
(b) He tells him they are doing just fine.
(c) He tells him that the birth ended in tragedy.
(d) He tells him he is unsure, as he was not there when the baby was born.

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

3. How does Mr. Button react when he sees Dr. Keene?
(a) He slowly walks over to him.
(b) He hurries away from him.
(c) He runs to him.
(d) He skips up to him.

4. How does Mr. Button’s son look in the new suit?
(a) Handsome.
(b) Wealthy.
(c) Ridiculous.
(d) Much younger.

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

2. By 18, how old does Benjamin look?

3. Why is war good for the Buttons?

4. In Chapter IV, the narrator states that not much of significance happens between which of Benjamin’s birthdays?

5. Once upstairs, how does the nurse respond when Mr. Button mentions that he is Mr. Button?

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