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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. If a child was rude while a guest was over for dinner, how did Dad respond?
(a) He made them stand and recite the Gettysburg Address.
(b) He made them leave the table and sit alone in the kitchen.
(c) He whacked them on the head with his knuckles.
(d) He ordered them to go straight to bed.

2. What mistake did the doctor realize when Ernestine was lying on the operating table?
(a) He had not put her under entirely.
(b) It was she who did not need her tonsils out.
(c) She had been allowed to eat a large meal before her surgery.
(d) He had already taken her tonsils out.

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

4. 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 formal clothes and sit still at the table.
(c) They had to dress in fine, uncomfortable clothes, and wait in the garden.
(d) They had to go play at the neighbor's house until the guests were gone.

5. When the children got measles, what did Dad do?
(a) He waited on them hand and foot.
(b) He took them to the hospital.
(c) He pretended to have them too, covering this face with red dots.
(d) He prayed for them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Mother was sick with a cold, what did the children assume about her?

3. Once the children became comfortable at their relatives' house, what was the environment like?

4. Once Dad became a parent, what did he quickly learn about children, which contradicted his theories?

5. When the children got sick, what did Mother do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In what condition were the children when Uncle Fred surprised them on the train, and how did he respond?

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

5. What was it about Dad's passion for photography which bothered the children?

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

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

8. Why did Dad have the children collect wooden pencils?

9. What didn't Dad believe in, which he told the children they weren't allowed to do?

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

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