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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was true about Aunt Anne?
(a) She was funny.
(b) She was strong-willed.
(c) She was passive.
(d) She was opposed to discipline.

2. Where did the family vacation every summer?
(a) Boston, Massachusetts.
(b) New London, Connecticut.
(c) Nantucket, Massachusetts.
(d) San Diego, California.

3. How did the older children feel about the outlandish stories the media wrote about the Gilbreth family?
(a) They were able to shrug it off because they were used to it.
(b) They were happy because it meant they were a bit famous.
(c) They were mortified.
(d) They were angry, and they sometimes got into fights at school.

4. Who surprised Mother and the children on their trip home?
(a) Uncle Fred.
(b) Dad.
(c) Chew Wong.
(d) Their grandmother.

5. What lessons did Dad conduct with the children on their vacation?
(a) Marine Biology and Physics.
(b) History and Mathematics.
(c) Morse Code and Astronomy.
(d) Construction and Physics.

6. What did the children's peers at school harass them about?
(a) Using wooden pencils.
(b) Having hired help at home.
(c) Owning a nice car.
(d) Their father being plump.

7. At the time when Mother traveled with the children, how many children were in the Gilbreth family?
(a) Ten.
(b) Three.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Seven.

8. 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 told them the children had been very rude.
(d) She said that everything went fine, even though it hadn't.

9. What is the focus of Chapter 13?
(a) A description of the personality of each Gilbreth child.
(b) The challenges Mother faced with each of her twelve pregnancies.
(c) A glimpse into the birth of each Gilbreth child.
(d) The similarities and differences between Mother and Dad.

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

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

12. What were Mother's parents concerned about?
(a) They thought the children did not feel at home.
(b) They didn't think they would be able to take a nap with all of the noise.
(c) They were worried about Baby Fred, who was sick.
(d) They were concerned about Mother working so hard.

13. When the children got sick, what did Mother do?
(a) She took the youngest children to her parent's house.
(b) She prepared each child's favorite meal for them.
(c) She waited on them hand and foot.
(d) She left them alone to rest.

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

15. Who tried to teach the Gilbreth children where babies come from?
(a) Their friends at school.
(b) Tom.
(c) Dad.
(d) Mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Dad behave on the boat?

2. Which of Mother's plans was disrupted?

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

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

5. When Tom gave tours of the Gilbreth house while they were away, how did Mother and Dad each respond?

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