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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Benjamin decide to attend Harvard?
(a) He wants revenge on the mob and on Yale.
(b) He will get more scholarship money at Harvard.
(c) Harvard is a better school than Yale.
(d) His father went to Harvard.

2. What does Benjamin begin to do at the beginning of Chapter V?
(a) Attend social gatherings and work for his father.
(b) Have a son.
(c) Apply to Yale.
(d) Get married.

3. In Chapter VIII, how does society at this time feel about Benjamin?
(a) They have no feelings one way or another about him.
(b) They feel sorry for him that he is tied to an older woman.
(c) They feel that he is an oddity and is dangerous.
(d) They enjoy poking fun at him.

4. What creates a permanent rift between Benjamin and Hildegarde?
(a) She is in love with another man.
(b) She is afraid of him, now that she realizes his aging condition is real.
(c) She believes he is choosing to age backwards.
(d) She thinks Benjamin should undergo surgery to look older.

5. Instead of playing with the items his father brings home, what does Benjamin do?
(a) He calls his friends on the telephone.
(b) He reads his mother's magazines.
(c) He reads the encyclopedia.
(d) He writes telegraph messages to his grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. in Chapter VIII, after returning downstairs from seeing himself in the mirror, how does Hildegarde seem?

2. When did the Spanish-American War break out?

3. How old is Benjamin in Chapter V?

4. When Mr. Button is telling Benjamin who controls the future, to whom is he referring?

5. Who starts to follow Benjamin on his way to the train station after Mr. Hart threw him out?

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