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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gives Benjamin the idea that he should go to Harvard?
(a) A member of the mob.
(b) Mr. Button.
(c) One of his instructors.
(d) Mr. Hart.

2. Where does Mr. Button run into Dr. Keene?
(a) On a trolley.
(b) Just outside the hospital.
(c) Around the corner from his home.
(d) In a pub.

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

4. When they first meet in the hospital crying room, what does Mr. Button's son threaten to do?
(a) Take off the itchy blanket wrapped around him.
(b) Stay in the hospital forever.
(c) Scream and cry.
(d) Leave the hospital alone.

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 writes telegraph messages to his grandfather.
(d) He reads the encyclopedia.

6. How does Mr. Button continue to try to make his elderly son act like a baby?
(a) By forcing him to sit on his lap in a rocking chair.
(b) By forcing him to say, "Goo goo gah gah."
(c) By forcing him to play with rattles and drink milk.
(d) By forcing him to listen to his father sing nursery rhymes.

7. What does Mr. Button do to try to fix his son's appearance after putting him in the new suit?
(a) He covers his head with a hat.
(b) He hastily cuts off his long beard.
(c) He dyes his hair.
(d) He makes his son wear a mask.

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

9. How does Mr. Button feel about the upcoming birth of his first child?
(a) Unnerved and anxiety-ridden.
(b) Nervous and excited.
(c) Unconcerned and blasé.
(d) Annoyed and irritated.

10. How does Mr. Button feel when he sees the fancy suit on display?
(a) He cheers up.
(b) He is embarassed.
(c) He is at his wits' end.
(d) He is filled with dread.

11. What does Mr. Button say, in Chapter II, he will call his son?
(a) Benjamin.
(b) Methuselah.
(c) Abraham.
(d) Noah.

12. What does Benjamin request of his father, now that he sees he is growing younger?
(a) A new hair style.
(b) A beard.
(c) Long pants.
(d) Different hair dye.

13. Why is Benjamin's father a bit uncertain about his son's request?
(a) Most boys do not wear long pants until age 14.
(b) There are no other shades of hair dye.
(c) A beard would make Benjamin look entirely too old.
(d) Mr. Button likes Benjamin's current hair style.

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

15. At the age of five, what is Benjamin forced to do?
(a) Have a surgery.
(b) Attend kindergarten.
(c) Leave home.
(d) Move into a home for the aging.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Benjamin and his grandfather become great friends?

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

3. When does Mr. Button need to take his son home from the hospital?

4. Why is Mr. Button in a panic about taking his son home from the hospital?

5. Where do the Buttons live?

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