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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. When Mother and Dad returned home, what did Aunt Anne tell them about her visit with the children?
(a) She told them their children were the best behaved children she had ever encountered.
(b) She told them the children had been very rude.
(c) She said that everything went fine, even though it hadn't.
(d) She told them the children were excellent musicians now.

2. What is the title of Chapter 13, "Have You Seen the Latest Model?" referring to?
(a) The new car Dad purchased when another child was born.
(b) A new machine in one of Dad's factories, which he was especially proud of.
(c) A toy truck that Frank, Jr. wanted for his birthday.
(d) The newest child in the Gilbreth family.

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

4. What is the focus of Chapter 13?
(a) The challenges Mother faced with each of her twelve pregnancies.
(b) A description of the personality of each Gilbreth child.
(c) The similarities and differences between Mother and Dad.
(d) A glimpse into the birth of each Gilbreth child.

5. Which of the following is not something the children did on the boat?
(a) They learned about mooring.
(b) They swabbed decks.
(c) They sang songs.
(d) They pretended to be fish and mermaids.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time when Mother traveled with the children, how many children were in the Gilbreth family?

2. How did Mother and Dad often respond to the outlandish stories the media wrote about the Gilbreth family?

3. When a psychologist came to visit, what prank did the children play on her?

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

5. Who got injured when Bill played a prank on them?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did the children get along with Mother's relatives in California?

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

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

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

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

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