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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When asked again how old his son is, what is Mr. Button's reply?
(a) 6 hours old.
(b) 6 years old.
(c) 6 days old.
(d) 16.

2. When Mr. Button approaches the nurse at the front desk and mentions his name, how does she react?
(a) She faints.
(b) She begins to cry and tells Mr. Button that he could go upstairs to see his child.
(c) She begins to giggle and shouts that Mr. Button could go upstairs to see his child.
(d) She looks frightened and shrieks that Mr. Button could go upstairs to see his child.

3. What does Mr. Button assume has happened, regarding his child and what he sees in the crying-room?
(a) A prank has been played on him.
(b) He is having a nightmare.
(c) The nurse is confused.
(d) His child has been accidentally switched with someone else's.

4. In which period does this story begin?
(a) The Civil War period.
(b) The antebellum period.
(c) The Interwar Era.
(d) The Reconstruction Era.

5. Why does Mr. Button hope the baby will be a boy?
(a) Because he prefers boys to girls.
(b) So he can take over the family business.
(c) So he can make him his junior.
(d) So he can send him to Yale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Keane tell Mr. Button that shocks Mr. Button?

2. Why is the clerk surprised at the suit Mr. Button chooses for his son?

3. How does Dr. Keene seem when Mr. Button asks about his wife and child?

4. What had Mr. Button been known as in college?

5. When they first meet in the hospital crying room, what does Mr. Button's son threaten to do?

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