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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 Dad respond when newspaper photographers would come to take their picture?
(a) He loved to learn from them because they were professionals.
(b) He was annoyed and didn't like being bossed around by the photographers.
(c) He interfered with their methods and offered too many suggestions.
(d) He was respectful and expected the children to be respectful as well.

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

3. Which of the following is true about when Dad first met Mother's family?
(a) He unintentionally insulted them.
(b) He was very different from them, but they loved him.
(c) He played a practical joke on her parents.
(d) He had a lot in common with them, and they loved him.

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

5. In Chapter 8, to where did Mother travel with the children?
(a) To Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to visit Dad.
(b) To California to visit her relatives.
(c) To Connecticut to visit Uncle Fred.
(d) To Boston to visit her parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Dad purchase a boat?

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

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

4. What happened to the children during their trip home?

5. Which of the following is not something the children did on the boat?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did the children begin to associate with Mother being pregnant?

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

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

6. When Mother traveled alone with the children to visit her relatives in California, what challenges did she face?

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

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

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

10. When the children arrived at Mother's relatives' home, how did they behave initially?

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