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

2. How did the children rebel during the tea party?
(a) They sang very loudly at the table.
(b) They hid from their grandmother.
(c) They played in the sprinkler and became soaking wet.
(d) They snuck into the kitchen to steal sweets.

3. What decision did Dad make regarding his own surgery?
(a) He had the oldest children assist the doctor so they could learn about operations.
(b) He became ill watching the children's surgeries and backed out of his own.
(c) He chose not to have the surgery, and he would save money for his children's surgeries.
(d) He chose not to be completely put under during the surgery.

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

5. 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 loved to learn from them because they were professionals.
(c) He was annoyed and didn't like being bossed around by the photographers.
(d) He interfered with their methods and offered too many suggestions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a challenge Mother faced as she traveled with the children?

2. What mistake did the doctor realize when Ernestine was lying on the operating table?

3. When a tea party was thrown for Mother, what was required of the children?

4. What was the name of the boat Dad purchased?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Where did Mother and Dad first meet, and how did he try to impress her?

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

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