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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. What is the primary focus of Chapter 15?
(a) Good manners and Aunt Anne's visits.
(b) Good manners and house guests.
(c) Pranks and house guests.
(d) Poor manners and music lessons.

2. Why did Dad make the children swim every day?
(a) They could help Mother learn how to swim.
(b) They would stay clean.
(c) They might become competitive swimmers.
(d) They would get exercise.

3. What were Mother's parents concerned about?
(a) They were concerned about Mother working so hard.
(b) They thought the children did not feel at home.
(c) They were worried about Baby Fred, who was sick.
(d) They didn't think they would be able to take a nap with all of the noise.

4. When the children got sick, what did Mother do?
(a) She prepared each child's favorite meal for them.
(b) She left them alone to rest.
(c) She waited on them hand and foot.
(d) She took the youngest children to her parent's house.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Dad behave on the boat?

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

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

4. When Mother and Dad returned home, what did Aunt Anne tell them about her visit with the children?

5. When did Mother become pregnant with their first child?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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