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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Mrs. Bruce?
(a) She was Dad's secretary.
(b) She was the mother of eight children.
(c) She was Ernestine's favorite teacher.
(d) She was an older woman who never had any children.

2. Which of the following is true of Mother's background?
(a) She was a teacher.
(b) She came from a poor family in Connecticut.
(c) She had eleven siblings.
(d) She came from a wealthy family in California.

3. Much to Dad's dismay, what happened when he attempted to build a cement bird bath?
(a) The children ran into it while playing and ruined it.
(b) The children told him they thought it was a boring project.
(c) He used too much sand, and it fell apart when he took it out of the mold.
(d) Bill built one also, but much faster than Dad.

4. How did Lillian Gilbreth often begin her platform appearances?
(a) With one minute of silence to calm her nerves before speaking.
(b) With a humorous anecdote about her family.
(c) With one of her children by her side.
(d) With a dictionary definition of whatever she planned to stress in her comments.

5. What did Mother do on the road trip, which the children loved and Dad admired?
(a) She made up songs about the things they were observing.
(b) She told the children stories about the things they were observing.
(c) She allowed the children to break some of the usual rules.
(d) She helped them find their way home when they got lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Dad find success and own his own contracting business by the age of 27?

2. According to Ernestine, which of the following statements is true about the popularity of the book, "Cheaper by the Dozen"?

3. What was one thing that Dad would not allow?

4. What do we learn about Mother during the big family outing in the car?

5. Whom did the townspeople play a joke on?

(see the answer key)

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