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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What war breaks out that is good for the Buttons?
(a) World War II.
(b) The French and Indian War.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) World War I.

2. When they first meet in the hospital crying room, what does Mr. Button's son threaten to do?
(a) Take off the itchy blanket wrapped around him.
(b) Stay in the hospital forever.
(c) Scream and cry.
(d) Leave the hospital alone.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Mr. Button in a panic about taking his son home from the hospital?

3. How does Mr. Button feel about the upcoming birth of his first child?

4. In Chapter IV, the narrator states that not much of significance happens between which of Benjamin’s birthdays?

5. When Mr. Button approaches the nurse at the front desk and mentions his name, how does she react?

Short Essay Questions

1. What takes place when Benjamin is placed in kindergarten?

2. What is the reaction the hospital staff regarding the birth the the Button's son?

3. What issue does Mr. Button have at the store, when going to buy clothes for his son?

4. What dilemma arises when Benjamin is the meet his the Yale registrar, Mr. Hart?

5. What is significant about Benjamin turning 12?

6. What leads Benjamin to deciding to attend Harvard?

7. What does Mr. Button do to try to make his elderly son act like a baby or small child?

8. What leads to Benjamin breaking something every day?

9. Why does Mr. Button have difficulty buying his newborn son a suit?

10. What is Mr. Button’s plan for his son, at the beginning of the story the story?

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