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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 old is Mrs. Bentley?
(a) 89
(b) 72
(c) 65
(d) 91
2. What makes Lena furious about the time Leo spent working on the Happiness Machine?
(a) The emotional turmoil it caused the family
(b) That he missed his child's special events
(c) That he ignored her complaints
(d) That he wasted so many days
3. What do Miss Fern and Miss Roberta hide?
(a) Love Machine
(b) Time Machine
(c) Happiness Machine
(d) Green Machine
4. What season is it as the novel opens?
(a) Spring
(b) Summer
(c) Winter
(d) Fall
5. Where does the trolley conductor take the boys on the last day the trolley is to run?
(a) Lake
(b) Regular stop
(c) Home
(d) Trolley station
Short Answer Questions
1. How many days does Leo spend working on the Happiness Machine?
2. What does Leo have a difficult time resolving the dynamics between?
3. What does Douglas believe will happen if he gets new sneakers?
4. What do Charlie and John take Douglas to see?
5. How many parts does Douglas decide to keep track of his summer in?
Short Essay Questions
1. What new revelation does Douglas come to by dividing up his summer?
2. Why does Lena become reduced to tears after she uses the Happiness Machine that Leo built?
3. What brings Douglas comfort after so many things that he loves have all changed and ended at once?
4. What do Douglas and his father experience very differently and provide one example of how they see the same event quite differently?
5. What can be said that Leo has tampered with when he follows through on building the Happiness Machine?
6. What is Leo having a difficult time resolving in his own mind that he discusses albeit briefly with Douglas?
7. Why is Frank confused at the message that Douglas gives to him to relay to his sisters?
8. How and why is Colonel Freeleigh a real time machine, though not a mechanical contraption?
9. How did Helen overcome her exasperation at the children not being able to accept the fact that she was once young?
10. How does Leo rationalize to a displeased Lena that the Happiness Machine is a necessity?
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