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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Although Dad enforced a majority rule system in the house, what was he growing concerned about at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) The children might not learn to understand that no means no.
(b) The children might begin to outvote him and Mother and take over the house.
(c) The children might begin to join together to vote for big issues such as bobbed hair and stockings.
(d) The children might think this is always how the world works.

2. What did Mother and Dad do together on Fridays?
(a) They went shopping.
(b) They went for a walk.
(c) They planned the children's schedule for the next week.
(d) They went to the movies.

3. Which of the following is not something the children did on the boat?
(a) They sang songs.
(b) They swabbed decks.
(c) They pretended to be fish and mermaids.
(d) They learned about mooring.

4. Although the children didn't have an interest in skipping grades, what was their motivation to try to achieve it anyway?
(a) To avoid the humiliation of having a younger sibling join their class.
(b) To avoid being punished.
(c) To make Mother and Dad proud of them.
(d) To complete their education sooner.

5. How did Lill make a male house guest feel at home?
(a) She baked cookies all by herself and gave them to him as a present.
(b) She told him he was the nicest man she had ever met.
(c) She hugged him and said he had children who loved him.
(d) She asked him to teach her how to be funny like he was.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Preface, what tactic does Ernestine use in her writing to get the point across?

2. Which of the following is true about Chapter 17?

3. How did Mother and Dad often respond to the outlandish stories the media wrote about the Gilbreth family?

4. What circumstance surrounded Fred's birth?

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

(see the answer key)

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