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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what did the children have to do before their big family outing in the Pierce Arrow?
(a) They had to wash their faces and brush their teeth.
(b) They had to finish their homework.
(c) They had to finish their chores.
(d) They had to conduct a fire drill.

2. What method did Dad use to ensure no one forgot their hygiene or socialization?
(a) Strict discipline and accountability.
(b) He set up charts and routines to ensure efficiency.
(c) He gave the children rewards and treats to gently remind them.
(d) He developed a unique whistle call for each child.

3. How did Mother approach her disagreement with Dad in a particular area of parenting?
(a) She went behind his back and did things differently.
(b) She went along with it.
(c) She quietly resented him for it.
(d) She argued with him about it.

4. Why is Chapter 5 entitled "Mister Chairman"?
(a) Dad enforced a new rule that the children must call him Mister Chairman instead of Dad.
(b) Mother and Dad ran the household like a business, and Dad was the Chairman.
(c) Martha wanted to be respected like the boys, and she told everyone her new name was Mister Chairman.
(d) Bill told Dad he wanted to be called Mister Chairman when he is grown up and successful in business.

5. How were paid chores assigned to the children?
(a) To the lowest bidder.
(b) To those with the best behavior.
(c) To those with the best grades.
(d) According to their age.

6. 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 think this is always how the world works.
(d) The children might begin to join together to vote for big issues such as bobbed hair and stockings.

7. When people questioned why the car was so crowded with children, how did Dad respond?
(a) He jokingly said that the dozen children were for sale, and cheaper if they bought the car too.
(b) He angrily told them to mind their own business.
(c) He cheerfully informed them that children come cheaper by the dozen.
(d) He said that if it would have been cheaper to purchase a dozen cars, then he would have done so.

8. How did Dad respond when Bill played a practical joke on him?
(a) He was mad at first, but then saw the humor in it.
(b) He forbade anyone in the house from playing practical jokes ever again.
(c) He punished Bill.
(d) He immediately laughed and was proud of his son's sense of humor.

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

10. While the family ate lunch, how did Dad use the time to educate the children?
(a) He gave them science and history lessons.
(b) He made them practice their spelling.
(c) He practiced math puzzles with them.
(d) He taught the older children how to drive the car.

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

12. Whom did Dad pretend to be after a woman commented about the children?
(a) A teacher who was taking children on a field trip.
(b) A policeman who was taking a group of undisciplined children to an orphanage.
(c) A benevolent superintendent who was taking a group of orphans out for the day.
(d) The leader of a group of circus performers.

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

14. What did Dad have a tendency to do on road trips?
(a) He would forget to pack some of the luggage.
(b) He would regret deciding to take a road trip, because it was so difficult.
(c) He would fall asleep while driving and they would have to stop for awhile.
(d) He would get lost, because he refused to get directions or use a map.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What subject was Martha particularly good at, which gained the family notoriety?

3. Using a method he designed, what experiment did Dad conduct with the children?

4. How often did the Gilbreth family practice fire drills?

5. In Chapter 1, what does the reader learn about how Dad strived to please his family?

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