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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 Douglas question about his friends?
(a) When they will come to a new sense of being
(b) Why they seem more alive
(c) How they will spend the summer
(d) Why they do not want to spend time with him
2. Where does the trolley conductor take the boys on the last day the trolley is to run?
(a) Regular stop
(b) Home
(c) Lake
(d) Trolley station
3. What happens to Leo after he enters the kitchen and announces he finished the plans for the Happiness Machine?
(a) Drinks
(b) Celebrates
(c) Storms out of the house
(d) Faints
4. Which of the following words means about the same thing as the word distilled as it is used in the following sentence?
The distilled brew will serve the family well.
(a) Extracted
(b) Collected
(c) Diluted
(d) Purified
5. What does Douglas find contentment in on Grandfather's porch?
(a) Adults' presence and chatter
(b) Sounds of the crickets
(c) Brother's love
(d) Catching lightning bugs
Short Answer Questions
1. Who witnessed the event where the Green Machine ran over the someone?
2. Which of the following are the major themes of this section?
3. How are the children taken back in time?
4. What does the time machine turn out to be?
5. What does Bill Forrester plan on doing that bothers Grandfather greatly?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the Green Machine offer to Miss Fern and Miss Roberta that is suddenly taken away after the accident?
2. How does Helen Bentley attempt to prove to the children that she was indeed once a child?
3. Describe how Douglas feels as he completes the task for his grandfather and describe what the tasks are.
4. What ruins Douglas' zest for life and desire to take in every new detail?
5. Why is Frank confused at the message that Douglas gives to him to relay to his sisters?
6. How does Douglas convince the shoe store owner to give him the new shoes and how does this process help the shoe store owner himself?
7. Which brother seems more like the father and in what way do they seem to be the same?
8. How and why is Colonel Freeleigh a real time machine, though not a mechanical contraption?
9. What does the beating of the rugs symbolize to Douglas and Tom both?
10. What portion of this section of the novel is the best example of the division between the elderly and the young?
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