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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 does Hildegarde NOT think about the way Benjamin is aging?
(a) It is prideful.
(b) It is interesting.
(c) It is odd.
(d) It is disprespectful.

2. From where has Roscoe recently graduated in Chapter VIII?
(a) Yale.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Carnegie-Mellon.
(d) Princeton.

3. In Chapter VIII, how does Hildegarde welcome Benjamin home?
(a) With divorce papers.
(b) With a party thrown in his honor.
(c) With a large banner.
(d) With the waving of a large silk flag.

4. In all the journals, Benjamin begins to be known as what?
(a) The Oddity.
(b) The Brute of Baltimore.
(c) The Mystery Man of Maryland.
(d) The Curiosity.

5. in Chapter VIII, after returning downstairs from seeing himself in the mirror, how does Hildegarde seem?
(a) Annoyed.
(b) Angry.
(c) Happy.
(d) Worried.

Short Answer Questions

1. Much of Benjamin’s life had improved over the years, except what?

2. How does Benjamin feel about being mistaken for his son?

3. What does Benjamin do when Hildegarde assumes he is his father's brother?

4. Benjamin is the first man in Baltimore to own what?

5. How do others feel about Benjamin in the 1890s?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had Benjamin hoped would happen regarding his reverse agin?

2. How are Hildegarde’s friends wrong about their marriage?

3. How is Benjamin known in all the journals?

4. What are the thoughts of both Roger and Benjamin on their ride home after the dance at the Shevlin estate?

5. How does Hildegarde’s father feel about her engagement to Benjamin Button? Why?

6. How does Benjamin feel 15 years since his marriage?

7. How is Benjamin drawn in the Sunday papers?

8. How does Benjamin end up back home from the Spanish-American War?

9. What does Hildegard think about the odd way in which Benjamin ages?

10. How does Benjamin respond to seeing Hildegarde after three years away at war? Why?

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