1. What activity took place at mealtime?
(a) They would play math tricks to learn multiplication.
(b) Dad quizzed the children with science and history trivia.
(c) Dad would play classical records and teach the children about the composer and the history of the music.
(d) Each family member took turns telling a story about their day.

2. What was a reason Dad drove the children to advance quickly in school?
(a) He wanted to brag to everyone about how smart his children were.
(b) He wanted to get as many of them as possible through college before he died.
(c) He wanted them to compete in national academic competitions.
(d) He didn't do well in school himself, and he wanted his children to do better than he did.

3. What is the primary focus of Chapter2?
(a) The reader learns that Dad has a bad temper and little sense of humor.
(b) The reader learns more about the impractical and fun loving side of Dad.
(c) The reader learned more about the practical and strict side of Dad.
(d) The reader learns more about Dad's work life.

4. Whom did the townspeople play a joke on?
(a) On a newcomer who was connected to a national birth control organization.
(b) On the Sunday school teacher.
(c) On Dad, because he was connected to a national hunting organization.
(d) On Mother, because she was usually so quiet and serious.

5. When the children considered what it would have been like to be an only child, what was their conclusion?
(a) The boys were happy to have siblings, but the girls each wished they were an only child.
(b) They were happy to have siblings, but wished they were either all boys or all girls.
(c) They were happy to have siblings.
(d) They each wished they were an only child.