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

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 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 had to go play at the neighbor's house until the guests were gone.

3. What gender did Dad want their first child to be?
(a) He desperately wanted a boy.
(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 girl.

4. When the children had their tonsils taken out, what did Dad do?
(a) He dressed up as a clown to make them feel better.
(b) He observed the surgeries and became ill.
(c) He didn't allow them to rest very long afterward, so they could learn to recover quickly.
(d) He decided to conduct a study of motion during operations.

5. Who got injured when Bill played a prank on them?
(a) Aunt Elinor.
(b) Uncle Fred.
(c) The children's grandmother.
(d) Chew Wong.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Dad respond when newspaper photographers would come to take their picture?

2. What is the primary focus of Chapter 15?

3. How did Uncle Fred surprise Mother and the children?

4. Which of the following was true about Aunt Anne?

5. How did Dad assign positions on the boat to the children?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. While the family was on summer vacation, what educational strategies did Dad employ?

3. When a psychologist came to visit, why did the children retaliate against her?

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

5. When the children needed to have their tonsils removed, whose tonsils were removed, even though they didn't need to be?

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

7. What did Dad attempt to do each year on their summer vacation, which caused tension between him and Mother?

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

9. Describe the incident when Dad fell overboard the boat.

10. What event prompted the children to loosen up and behave as they normally would?

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