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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. How are the children taken back in time?
(a) Through hypnosis
(b) Through stories
(c) Through pictures
(d) Through joined belief

2. What happens when Leo tries the machine himself?
(a) It reduces him to tears
(b) It explodes
(c) It catches on fire
(d) It works perfectly

3. What divides Green Town into two?
(a) River
(b) Railroad tracks
(c) Mountain
(d) Ravine

4. Which of the following characters believes that a sandwich outdoors tastes different from indoors?
(a) Grandfather
(b) Tom
(c) Douglass
(d) Father

5. Which of the following are the major themes of this section?
(a) Relief and happiness
(b) Life and death
(c) Death and fear
(d) Perseverence and friendship

Short Answer Questions

1. How many parts does Douglas decide to keep track of his summer in?

2. Which category of his summer did Douglas decide remounting the porch swing with his grandfather fell into?

3. Where do Miss Fern and Miss Roberta hide?

4. Who witnessed the event where the Green Machine ran over the someone?

5. What does Douglas use to begin to appreciate his surroundings?

Short Essay Questions

1. What great secret does Douglas believe his father and Tom have already realized?

2. Which brother seems more like the father and in what way do they seem to be the same?

3. How does Leo rationalize to a displeased Lena that the Happiness Machine is a necessity?

4. Describe how Douglas feels as he completes the task for his grandfather and describe what the tasks are.

5. How and why is Colonel Freeleigh a real time machine, though not a mechanical contraption?

6. How does Helen Bentley attempt to prove to the children that she was indeed once a child?

7. How do Tom's fears come to surround him, make him feel, and expand into his imagination?

8. What brings Douglas comfort after so many things that he loves have all changed and ended at once?

9. Name two examples where Douglas tried to cling to something in order to control destiny or change.

10. What is Leo having a difficult time resolving in his own mind that he discusses albeit briefly with Douglas?

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