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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 assume has happened, regarding his child and what he sees in the crying-room?
(a) The nurse is confused.
(b) A prank has been played on him.
(c) His child has been accidentally switched with someone else's.
(d) He is having a nightmare.

2. What does Mr. Button see upon entering the crying-room?
(a) A young man.
(b) A small baby boy.
(c) An old man with a beard.
(d) Triplets.

3. Around what age does Benjamin first notice he has grown younger?
(a) 10.
(b) 21.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

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

5. Who starts to follow Benjamin on his way to the train station after Mr. Hart threw him out?
(a) A pack of wolves.
(b) Small children.
(c) A mob of students and other community members.
(d) College professors.

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

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

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

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

10. How do those in society who meet Benjamin react?
(a) They scream or cry out in horror.
(b) They politely compliment him and say how much he resembles his grandfather.
(c) They look at him fearfully and run away.
(d) They ignore him completely.

11. 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.

12. What does Mr. Button do to try to fix his son's appearance after putting him in the new suit?
(a) He covers his head with a hat.
(b) He dyes his hair.
(c) He makes his son wear a mask.
(d) He hastily cuts off his long beard.

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

14. Why does Benjamin regularly break items around the house?
(a) He is very clumsy.
(b) To get on his father's nerves.
(c) To make his father happy.
(d) To get attention.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Button say, in Chapter II, he will call his son?

2. Is Benjamin able to find cases like his in medical journals?

3. In which period does this story begin?

4. Why does Benjamin's kindergarten teacher want him out of her class?

5. How does Mr. Button feel when the nurse confirms the bearded man is his son?

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