Vocabulary I
Astonished/Shocked
What is "stupefied?"
Close friends or companions
What are cronies?
The character who abruptly quits in the story's opening.
Who is the family doctor?
What does Benjamin ask for after his birth?
What is clothes, a cane,etc.
The PHYSICAL age Benjamin was at his birth.
What is 70 years old?
To nervously shake or tremble while speaking
What is to "Quaver?"
Willing to do a service; helpful.
What does "obligingly" mean?
What is Roger Button's profession?
What is owning a hardware company?
How do the Buttons show their wealth in Chapter 1?
What is having a birth in the hospital?
What is unique about Benjamin's condition?
What is Benjamin reversing in age?
To lack variety or interest
What does it mean to have "monotony."
To differ from what is considered normal or expected
What does it mean to be an "anomaly?"
What is interesting about Benjamin Button's mother?
What is we never see her in the story?
What is so important about the line "Young boys are so idiotic...Men your age know how to appreciate women"?
What is irony as Benjamin looks 50 but is actually 20
Who did BEnjamin feel most at ease with in CHAPTER 3?
Who is Benjamin's Grandfather?
To disfigure or impair an appearance
What does it mean to "mar?"
Involving basic principles.
What does it mean to be "rudimentary?"
The name of Benjamin Button's first love
Who is Hildegard?
Why is Roger Button fine with Benjamin letting go of the hair dye?
What is a business partner and father/son bonding?
Two actions Benjamin performed in Act 3 that showed his PHYSICAL age
What is smoking cigars and reading the Encyclopedia?
Impossible to understand
What does it mean to be "Inscrutable?"
Thinly dispersed or scattered.
What does it mean to be "sparse?"
What dark statement does roger Button say and "wish for" after meeting his son, Benjamin?
What is wishing he was black so he can sell him into slavery.
Why was Roger Button secretly happy about Benjamin's behavior in Chapter 3?
What is breaking a window like a young boy?
Describe Benjamin's college encounter in chapter 4 in detail.
What is applying at Yale, being ridiculed and accused for looking a different age, etc...