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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. At the age of five, what is Benjamin forced to do?
(a) Attend kindergarten.
(b) Move into a home for the aging.
(c) Leave home.
(d) Have a surgery.

5. What happens when Benjamin's father sends him to Yale to take his entrance exams?
(a) He passes and joins the freshman class.
(b) He gets lost.
(c) He grows much younger.
(d) He fails miserably.

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

7. When Mr. Button becomes concerned that something terrible has happened during the delivery of his child, how does he approach the hospital?
(a) Running at full speed.
(b) Walking quickly.
(c) With great difficulty.
(d) He hails a cab to get there faster.

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

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

10. Where does Mr. Button run into Dr. Keene?
(a) On a trolley.
(b) Around the corner from his home.
(c) In a pub.
(d) Just outside the hospital.

11. When asked again how old his son is, what is Mr. Button's reply?
(a) 16.
(b) 6 days old.
(c) 6 years old.
(d) 6 hours old.

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When they first meet in the hospital crying room, what does Mr. Button's son threaten to do?

2. As Benjamin boards the train leaving Yale, what does he shout out the window?

3. What is Mr. Button's first name?

4. Who gives Benjamin the idea that he should go to Harvard?

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

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