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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. Why is the Button wholesale business so successful?

2. How does Benjamin feel about returning home after the war?

3. In all the journals, Benjamin begins to be known as what?

4. How does Benjamin feel on his ride home at dawn with his father after meeting Hildegarde?

5. Why is General Moncrief more fond of his son-in-law after 15 years?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are two of the rumors being spread around society about Benjamin after his engagement to Hildegarde?

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

3. What attracts Hildegarde to Benjamin?

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

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

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

7. Fifteen years after their marriage, how do others feel about the Benjamin Button family?

8. How is Benjamin drawn in the Sunday papers?

9. How does Benjamin’s life improve over the years in Chapter 7 and 8? What is the exception?

10. How is Benjamin known in all the journals?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are varying reactions to Benjamin‘s rare condition. What are these reactions? How do they affect Benjamin? How do they make Benjamin‘s life more difficult but also make him stronger? What can the reader learn from this?

Essay Topic 2

There are unusual happenings surrounding the birth of Benjamin Button? What are they? How do others react to this? Are you surprised by their reactions? Why or why not? Would people have the same reactions today? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Benjamin and Hildegarde’s marriage slowly dies. What leads to the death of their marriage? Although Benjamin’s growing younger is atypical, how is the growing of a couple in different ways also sometimes lead to estrangement and separation similar to what happens between Benjamin and Hildegarde? How does the end of their relationship reflect what is happening more often in the world of F. Scott Fitzgerald?

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