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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. Fifteen years after their marriage, how does high society now feel about the Benjamin Buttons?
2. Why is General Moncrief more fond of his son-in-law after 15 years?
3. How does Benjamin feel about being mistaken for his son?
4. What other leadership roles, besides captain, does Benjamin hold by the end of the war?
5. Why does Hildegarde like men who are 50?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does General Moncrief try to convince Hildegarde that she is making a mistake marrying Benjamin?
2. What is significant about Benjamin turning 20?
3. Why is the truth about Benjamin’s birth not circulated as much as the wild rumors?
4. What is Benjamin’s reaction to seeing his reflection, upon returning from the war?
5. How does Benjamin’s life improve over the years in Chapter 7 and 8? What is the exception?
6. What is important about the dance at the Shevlin estate?
7. What solidifies the attraction between Hildegarde and Benjamin?
8. How does Benjamin respond to seeing Hildegarde after three years away at war? Why?
9. How does Benjamin end up back home from the Spanish-American War?
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
Mrs. Button is hardly mentioned in the story. Why might the author have decided to leave her out of it? How does this affect the story and the characters in it? How different might the story have been if she had a more significant role?
Essay Topic 2
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 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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