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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter I, the narrator states how unusual it is for a baby to be born in 1860 where?
(a) A bedroom.
(b) At home.
(c) In a hospital.
(d) A barn.

2. Why is it not made known that Hildegarde Moncrief is engaged to Benjamin Button?
(a) Benjamin's father would prefer not to have it announced.
(b) Society finds out before her father is able to announce it.
(c) Her father is too busy with business to announce it.
(d) Her father would rather die than announce the engagement.

3. Why is Mr. Button in a panic about taking his son home from the hospital?
(a) He has never held a newborn baby before.
(b) He is not sure what to feed him.
(c) He has nowhere for him to sleep.
(d) He does not know how he can walk through the streets and introduce this old man as his newborn son.

4. What does Benjamin request of his father, regarding Hildegarde?
(a) A dance card.
(b) An introduction.
(c) A phone call.
(d) A letter of recommendation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Around what age does Benjamin first notice he has grown younger?

2. How is Benjamin able to enter the army as a captain?

3. By 18, how old does Benjamin look?

4. When Mr. Button approaches the nurse at the front desk and mentions his name, how does she react?

5. What happens when Benjamin's father sends him to Yale to take his entrance exams?

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