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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is Mr. Button dressed the day his wife gives birth?
(a) Disheveled.
(b) Impeccably.
(c) In his smoking jacket.
(d) In pajamas.

3. What does Benjamin request of his father, now that he sees he is growing younger?
(a) A new hair style.
(b) Long pants.
(c) A beard.
(d) Different hair dye.

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

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

6. What is Benjamin's dilemma when he is to meet with the college registrar, Mr. Hart?
(a) He cannot find his long pants.
(b) He does not know where Mr. Hart's office is.
(c) He forgot to shave.
(d) He has run out of hair dye.

7. What does Mr. Button say, in Chapter II, he will call his son?
(a) Benjamin.
(b) Noah.
(c) Methuselah.
(d) Abraham.

8. Why does Benjamin's kindergarten teacher want him out of her class?
(a) He reeks of cigar smoke.
(b) He is learning nothing and distracts the other children.
(c) He regularly drifts off to sleep.
(d) He is a troublemaker.

9. What does Mr. Button NOT bring home for Benjamin in Chapter III?
(a) Toy soldiers.
(b) Stuffed animals.
(c) Toy trains.
(d) Activities for grown men.

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

11. How does Mr. Button feel when he sees the fancy suit on display?
(a) He is embarassed.
(b) He is filled with dread.
(c) He is at his wits' end.
(d) He cheers up.

12. What does the nurse suggest that Mr. Button do, so he can take his son home?
(a) Call a cab.
(b) Go shopping for clothes for him.
(c) Talk some sense into him.
(d) Calm him down.

13. What does Dr. Keane turn away and mutter to himself?
(a) He is exhausted.
(b) He is tired of delivering babies.
(c) Expectant fathers are so irritating.
(d) He is worried this case will ruin him.

14. Where is Benjamin headed at the end of Chapter IV?
(a) To Boston.
(b) To Harvard.
(c) To New York City.
(d) Back home to Baltimore.

15. In which period does this story begin?
(a) The Civil War period.
(b) The antebellum period.
(c) The Interwar Era.
(d) The Reconstruction Era.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mr. Button see upon entering the crying-room?

3. Before he hurries out of the hospital, for what does Mr. Button's son ask?

4. What does Mr. Button ask Dr. Keene, when he sees that Dr. Keene looks worried?

5. Where does Mr. Button run into Dr. Keene?

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