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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 - 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Button threaten to do, if his son does not put the new suit on?
(a) Leave him at a home for the aging.
(b) Drop him off at an orphanage.
(c) Leave him at the hospital.
(d) Spank him.

2. Where is Benjamin headed at the end of Chapter IV?
(a) To New York City.
(b) Back home to Baltimore.
(c) To Boston.
(d) To Harvard.

3. What had Mr. Button been known as in college?
(a) Rog.
(b) Cuff.
(c) Bob.
(d) Ruff.

4. Who starts to follow Benjamin on his way to the train station after Mr. Hart threw him out?
(a) College professors.
(b) A mob of students and other community members.
(c) Small children.
(d) A pack of wolves.

5. In Chapter IV, the narrator states that not much of significance happens between which of Benjamin’s birthdays?
(a) 5th and 12.
(b) 18th and 21st.
(c) 12th and 21st.
(d) 8th and 10th.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is war good for the Buttons?

2. Why does Benjamin's kindergarten teacher want him out of her class?

3. Who is convinced that Benjamin is a young boy?

4. Instead of playing with the items his father brings home, what does Benjamin do?

5. What is the socioeconomic status of the Mr. Button and his family?

(see the answer key)

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