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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chapter 3 demonstrate about Dad's relationship with Mother?
(a) Mother always supported Dad, even if she didn't like something he was doing.
(b) Dad respected Mother, and yielded to her wishes when she asserted herself.
(c) Dad did not respect Mother, because their points of view were so different.
(d) Dad and Mother disagreed often.

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

3. According to Ernestine, which of the following statements is true about the popularity of the book, "Cheaper by the Dozen"?
(a) Although people around the world like the story, the book sales were never very strong.
(b) It has captured the hearts of readers across decades and around the world through book sales and an active website.
(c) The readers do not ask many questions about the Gilbreth family.
(d) It was very popular a few decades ago, but it is not very popular today.

4. How were the children expected to respond when they heard the whistle?
(a) They were to go to bed.
(b) They were to start their chores.
(c) They were to come as quickly as possible.
(d) They were to shout their name to be accounted for.

5. 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 begin to outvote him and Mother and take over the house.
(b) The children might begin to join together to vote for big issues such as bobbed hair and stockings.
(c) The children might think this is always how the world works.
(d) The children might not learn to understand that no means no.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, how did Mother prepare for what she believed would be the inevitable outcome of their road trip?

2. While the family ate lunch, how did Dad use the time to educate the children?

3. What was Dad's view of religious training?

4. Which of the following is an accurate description of Dad?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In the Preface of the book, what did Ernestine Carey Gilbreth share about the popularity of "Cheaper by the Dozen"?

2. What was the Family Council?

3. What are two examples of how Dad was intimately involved with the children's schooling?

4. By what method did Mother and Dad choose to run the household?

5. When a woman mistakenly thought the family was a group of orphans, how did Dad respond?

6. How did dad surprise the family with their first car?

7. What key elements of the book were introduced in the Preface of "Cheaper by the Dozen"?

8. When the family went out for an excursion in their car, how did the children have to prepare?

9. What did Dad have a reputation for doing on family road trips, and how did Mother prepare for it?

10. What are two examples of ways in which Dad did not allow any time to be wasted for the children?

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