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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Button NOT do to try to make his son appear younger?
(a) Shave off his beard.
(b) Cut and dye his hair.
(c) Make him wear a mask.
(d) Dress him in boyish clothes.

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

3. What do other students do to Benjamin, because they believe he is an old man passing as a young college student?
(a) They ignore him.
(b) They cheer him on.
(c) They throw rocks at him.
(d) They fire insults at him as he heads to the train.

4. Does Mr. Hart believe that Benjamin is 18?
(a) No, not at all.
(b) No, not at first.
(c) Yes, instantly.
(d) Yes, but only after a great deal of exlanation.

5. 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 has never held a newborn baby before.
(c) He does not know how he can walk through the streets and introduce this old man as his newborn son.
(d) He is not sure what to feed him.

6. Once upstairs, how does the nurse respond when Mr. Button mentions that he is Mr. Button?
(a) She is silent and in shock.
(b) She chides him for what he has done to the hospital’s reputation.
(c) She faints.
(d) She begins to cry.

7. What is Mr. Button's first name?
(a) Roger.
(b) William.
(c) George.
(d) Robert.

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

9. Before he hurries out of the hospital, for what does Mr. Button's son ask?
(a) A cigar.
(b) A cane.
(c) Milk.
(d) Candy.

10. What is the socioeconomic status of the Mr. Button and his family?
(a) Working class.
(b) Middle class.
(c) Upper class.
(d) Poor.

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

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

13. In Chapter II, how old does Mr. Button initially tell the store clerk his son is?
(a) 6 days old.
(b) 6 hours old.
(c) 16.
(d) 6 years old.

14. Why is war good for the Buttons?
(a) They can send Benjamin to fight in it.
(b) Much of society is distracted, so they can more easily hide the fact their infant son was born an elderly man.
(c) They can make a profit off of it.
(d) Mr. Button can enlist.

15. By 18, how old does Benjamin look?
(a) 60.
(b) 50.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is the clerk surprised at the suit Mr. Button chooses for his son?

3. What does Benjamin request of his father, now that he sees he is growing younger?

4. How does Mr. Button react when Benjamin accidentally breaks a window in the kitchen playing with a sling shot?

5. When does Mr. Button need to take his son home from the hospital?

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