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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. Why did Dad purchase a boat?
(a) He wanted to study the movement of a boat in different kinds of weather.
(b) To reward the children for learning how to swim.
(c) It was his lifelong dream.
(d) The price was so low, he couldn't say no.

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

3. 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) The similarities and differences between Mother and Dad.
(d) A glimpse into the birth of each Gilbreth child.

4. How did Dad respond when newspaper photographers would come to take their picture?
(a) He was respectful and expected the children to be respectful as well.
(b) He was annoyed and didn't like being bossed around by the photographers.
(c) He loved to learn from them because they were professionals.
(d) He interfered with their methods and offered too many suggestions.

5. Where did the family usually stay on their way to their vacation destination?
(a) A hotel in Boston.
(b) A hotel in New London, Connecticut.
(c) In a small cottage beside the water.
(d) Aunt Elinor's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Mother's parents concerned about?

2. When the children had their tonsils taken out, what did Dad do?

3. What circumstance surrounded Fred's birth?

4. What gender did Dad want their first child to be?

5. Why did Dad make the children swim every day?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were the children trained to treat house guests?

2. How did Dad reinforce the importance of good table manners?

3. When Mother traveled alone with the children to visit her relatives in California, what challenges did she face?

4. How did the boat bring out Dad's sense of imaginative play?

5. Why did Dad purchase a boat, and what was the name of the boat?

6. Why did Dad insist on setting up movie cameras when the children had their tonsils removed?

7. When the children arrived at Mother's relatives' home, how did they behave initially?

8. At what point in their relationship did Mother and Dad agree they would like a large family with twelve children?

9. What happened to Martha's canaries when they were traveling to Nantucket, Massachusetts?

10. What did the children begin to associate with Mother being pregnant?

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