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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What request from the children did Dad always resist, but gave into every time?
(a) They wanted to leave the movie early when they got restless and bored.
(b) They wanted to ride their bicycles to the movies rather than take the car.
(c) They wanted to go to out for ice cream after the movie.
(d) They wanted to stay for a second movie.

2. What is the primary focus of Chapter 15?
(a) Good manners and Aunt Anne's visits.
(b) Poor manners and music lessons.
(c) Good manners and house guests.
(d) Pranks and house guests.

3. What gender did Dad want their first child to be?
(a) He desperately wanted a boy.
(b) He insisted that he didn't care whether it was a boy or a girl.
(c) He desperately wanted a girl.
(d) Whatever Mother wanted.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is an example of how Dad strived for efficiency in his life?

2. What was the family's code name for going to the bathroom in the woods instead of using a public restroom?

3. What method did Dad use with the children to reinforce that they work hard in school?

4. What elements of the novel does Ernestine Gilbreth Carey introduce in the Preface of the book?

5. In Chapter 3, what did the children have to do before their big family outing in the Pierce Arrow?

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