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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In all the journals, Benjamin begins to be known as what?

2. Why is it not made known that Hildegarde Moncrief is engaged to Benjamin Button?

3. What creates a permanent rift between Benjamin and Hildegarde?

4. Why is Benjamin unable to focus on his father's conversation on the way back home?

5. Who escorts Benjamin home from the train station after returning from war?

Short Essay Questions

1. Fifteen years after their marriage, how do others feel about the Benjamin Button family?

2. What attracts Hildegarde to Benjamin?

3. How are Hildegarde’s friends wrong about their marriage?

4. How does Benjamin’s life improve over the years in Chapter 7 and 8? What is the exception?

5. Why is the truth about Benjamin’s birth not circulated as much as the wild rumors?

6. What is significant about Benjamin turning 20?

7. How does Benjamin end up back home from the Spanish-American War?

8. How has Hildegarde changed over the years by Chapter 8?

9. What does Hildegard think about the odd way in which Benjamin ages?

10. How does Hildegarde’s father feel about her engagement to Benjamin Button? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hildegarde Moncrief refuses to believe the truth about Benjamin’s odd way of growing. Why does the refuse to belief the truth? How does she react to his growing younger, once she sees this rumor is true? Would she have married him had she known he would continue to grow younger? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Why might F. Scott Fitzgerald have chosen to write this short story? What might have been his purpose in creating the character Benjamin? What do you think Fitzgerald wants the reader to get out of this book?

Essay Topic 3

At around age 12, Benjamin starts to realize he is growing younger. How does this make him feel? How does this affect his father? How would you feel if you were him or his father? Why?

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