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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the problem with men who are in their 40s, according to Hildegarde?
(a) They are too old.
(b) They are too full of stories.
(c) They are too worldly.
(d) They are too tired and overworked.

2. Who gives Benjamin the idea that he should go to Harvard?
(a) A member of the mob.
(b) Mr. Hart.
(c) Mr. Button.
(d) One of his instructors.

3. What happens when Benjamin's father sends him to Yale to take his entrance exams?
(a) He fails miserably.
(b) He grows much younger.
(c) He passes and joins the freshman class.
(d) He gets lost.

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

5. How does Mr. Button feel about the upcoming birth of his first child?
(a) Nervous and excited.
(b) Annoyed and irritated.
(c) Unnerved and anxiety-ridden.
(d) Unconcerned and blasé.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Benjamin headed at the end of Chapter IV?

2. In all the journals, Benjamin begins to be known as what?

3. Where do the Buttons live?

4. Who starts to follow Benjamin on his way to the train station after Mr. Hart threw him out?

5. How long does it take society to remember the events surrounding Benjamin’s birth and wild rumors began to fly,

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