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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Mr. Button approaches the nurse at the front desk and mentions his name, how does she react?
(a) She looks frightened and shrieks that Mr. Button could go upstairs to see his child.
(b) She begins to giggle and shouts that Mr. Button could go upstairs to see his child.
(c) She begins to cry and tells Mr. Button that he could go upstairs to see his child.
(d) She faints.

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

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

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

6. As Benjamin boards the train leaving Yale, what does he shout out the window?
(a) The mob and Yale will regret what they have said and done to him.
(b) Expletives.
(c) Nothing, as he cowers in his seat.
(d) Nay, nay, nay, na boo boo!

7. Why is Benjamin's father a bit uncertain about his son's request?
(a) A beard would make Benjamin look entirely too old.
(b) Most boys do not wear long pants until age 14.
(c) Mr. Button likes Benjamin's current hair style.
(d) There are no other shades of hair dye.

8. What does Mr. Button ask Dr. Keene, when he sees that Dr. Keene looks worried?
(a) If the baby was a girl instead of a boy.
(b) If the baby survived.
(c) If his wife had triplets.
(d) If his wife survived.

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

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

11. Why does Mr. Hart throw Benjamin out of the college and out of the town?
(a) He considers him a dangerous lunatic.
(b) He thinks Benjamin is not intelligent enough to be at Yale.
(c) Benjamin becomes violent.
(d) He does not like Mr. Button, therefore he does not want Benjamin there.

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

13. What does Benjamin NOT promise to continue doing, to get from his father what he has requested?
(a) Dying his hair.
(b) Playing with boys his age.
(c) Pretending to be his age.
(d) Enlist in the army.

14. In Chapter III, when Mr. Button finally gives in and lets Benjamin eat food, what does he allow?
(a) Cakes and cookies.
(b) Bread with butter and oatmeal.
(c) Fruits and vegetables.
(d) Crackers and cereal.

15. How does Mr. Button's son react to the suit his father has purchased for him?
(a) He is not pleased.
(b) He gives no reaction.
(c) He is satisfied.
(d) He is excited.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Benjamin's height?

2. Why does Benjamin regularly break items around the house?

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

4. Who is convinced that Benjamin is a young boy?

5. How do those in society who meet Benjamin react?

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