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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Benjamin feel while waiting to meet Hildegarde?

2. Why is Benjamin unable to focus on his father's conversation on the way back home?

3. Why is the Button wholesale business so successful?

4. Why does the truth about Benjamin's birth not spread as quickly as the rumors?

5. Who escorts Benjamin home from the train station after returning from war?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the truth about Benjamin’s birth not circulated as much as the wild rumors?

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

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

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

5. How have Benjamin’s feelings about aging changed since his return from the war?

6. What is important about the dance at the Shevlin estate?

7. What does Benjamin think about the Spanish-American War?

8. What does Roger do to try to prove that his son is actually a young man?

9. What solidifies the attraction between Hildegarde and Benjamin?

10. How has Hildegarde changed over the years by Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Benjamin finally gets his revenge on Yale by attending Harvard. What is his experience at Harvard like? How does his time at Harvard start to reveal the true downside to Benjamin's condition? How does it show that the end of Benjamin's life is near?

Essay Topic 2

When someone in the mob shouts that Benjamin should go to Harvard, he sees both the insult and the inspiration. What does this reveal about Benjamin? How does this influence decisions that Benjamin makes later in the story? How might the reader apply this to his or her own life?

Essay Topic 3

Benjamin goes along with most of his father’s attempts to hide his age and to make him appear normal. What does this say about Benjamin? How does this affect him in the long term? Was this right of his father to do? Why or why not?

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