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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 listen to his father sing nursery rhymes.
(d) By forcing him to play with rattles and drink milk.

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

6. Who is convinced that Benjamin is a young boy?
(a) His friends at school.
(b) Only the very young and old.
(c) His mother.
(d) No one.

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

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

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

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

11. When does Mr. Button need to take his son home from the hospital?
(a) Never.
(b) Today, and as soon as possible.
(c) Within the week.
(d) This very moment.

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

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

14. Why is the clerk surprised at the suit Mr. Button chooses for his son?
(a) It is very fancy and not appropriate for a young boy.
(b) It is meant for a small child, not a baby.
(c) It looks entirely too small.
(d) It is quite homely for such a wealthy man.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Does Mr. Hart believe that Benjamin is 18?

3. What does Dr. Keane turn away and mutter to himself?

4. How does Benjamin manage to get to the train safely?

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

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