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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What method did Dad use to reinforce the importance of social poise?
(a) Corporal punishment.
(b) Rewards.
(c) Verbal reprimands.
(d) Verbal praise.

2. How did Dad assign positions on the boat to the children?
(a) According to their gender.
(b) According to their interests.
(c) According to their ages.
(d) According to their behavior.

3. How did the children respond when Aunt Anne made changes to the household?
(a) They spent an entire meal making her life miserable.
(b) They played pranks on her constantly.
(c) They asked her to move in with them permanently.
(d) They ignored her rules.

4. When Mother and Dad returned home, what did Aunt Anne tell them about her visit with the children?
(a) She told them their children were the best behaved children she had ever encountered.
(b) She told them the children were excellent musicians now.
(c) She said that everything went fine, even though it hadn't.
(d) She told them the children had been very rude.

5. What is the title of Chapter 13, "Have You Seen the Latest Model?" referring to?
(a) The new car Dad purchased when another child was born.
(b) The newest child in the Gilbreth family.
(c) A new machine in one of Dad's factories, which he was especially proud of.
(d) A toy truck that Frank, Jr. wanted for his birthday.

6. How did the children rebel during the tea party?
(a) They sang very loudly at the table.
(b) They snuck into the kitchen to steal sweets.
(c) They hid from their grandmother.
(d) They played in the sprinkler and became soaking wet.

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

8. When a tea party was thrown for Mother, what was required of the children?
(a) They had to go play at the neighbor's house until the guests were gone.
(b) They had to dress in fine, uncomfortable clothes, and wait in the garden.
(c) They had to dress in formal clothes and sit still at the table.
(d) They all had to take long naps before the guests arrived.

9. Who was the last Gilbreth child to be born?
(a) Lill.
(b) Martha.
(c) Fred.
(d) Jane.

10. Why did Dad make the children swim every day?
(a) They would stay clean.
(b) They would get exercise.
(c) They could help Mother learn how to swim.
(d) They might become competitive swimmers.

11. When did Mother become pregnant with their first child?
(a) Five years after their wedding.
(b) About a month after their wedding.
(c) About a year after their wedding.
(d) About a week after their wedding.

12. What concern did Mother have about giving birth at home?
(a) The new baby might not be able to sleep in such a busy household.
(b) Dad might interfere too much.
(c) Her screams might scare the children.
(d) She might not be able to rest afterward.

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

14. How did the children feel when they experienced luxury?
(a) They felt jealous.
(b) They felt like they had fairy godmothers.
(c) They felt like they were princes and princesses.
(d) They felt unworthy of such special treatment.

15. How did Mother and Dad often respond to the outlandish stories the media wrote about the Gilbreth family?
(a) They giggled about it.
(b) Mother giggled about them, while Dad was angry.
(c) Mother would cry, and Dad would be angry for days.
(d) They wrote letters to the newspaper demanding that they correct the inaccuracies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is true about when Dad first met Mother's family?

2. What did the children's peers at school harass them about?

3. What happened to the children during their trip home?

4. How did Lill make a male house guest feel at home?

5. What was it about Dad's photography that scared the youngest Gilbreth children?

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