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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Bill do on the road trip which made everyone laugh?
(a) He mimicked Mother and teased Dad.
(b) He frequently requested stops to go to the bathroom.
(c) He constantly said he was hungry.
(d) He told jokes.

2. How did Mother and Dad often respond to the outlandish stories the media wrote about the Gilbreth family?
(a) They giggled about it.
(b) They wrote letters to the newspaper demanding that they correct the inaccuracies.
(c) Mother would cry, and Dad would be angry for days.
(d) Mother giggled about them, while Dad was angry.

3. What method did Dad use with the children to reinforce that they work hard in school?
(a) He made them meet with the principal once a week.
(b) He rewarded them heavily.
(c) He signed them up for classes below their grade level.
(d) He punished them often.

4. What mistake did the doctor realize when Ernestine was lying on the operating table?
(a) He had already taken her tonsils out.
(b) It was she who did not need her tonsils out.
(c) He had not put her under entirely.
(d) She had been allowed to eat a large meal before her surgery.

5. What did the children's peers at school harass them about?
(a) Their father being plump.
(b) Having hired help at home.
(c) Using wooden pencils.
(d) Owning a nice car.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the reader learn in Chapter 14?

2. When the children got sick, what did Mother do?

3. In Chapter 8, to where did Mother travel with the children?

4. What did Grandma Gilbreth give to the children to help them ward off illness?

5. When the children had their tonsils taken out, what did Dad do?

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