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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) Pranks and house guests.
(b) Poor manners and music lessons.
(c) Good manners and Aunt Anne's visits.
(d) Good manners and house guests.

2. How did Mother and Dad often respond to the outlandish stories the media wrote about the Gilbreth family?
(a) Mother giggled about them, while Dad was angry.
(b) They wrote letters to the newspaper demanding that they correct the inaccuracies.
(c) Mother would cry, and Dad would be angry for days.
(d) They giggled about it.

3. How did Uncle Fred surprise Mother and the children?
(a) He took them to the ocean.
(b) He brought presents for each one of them.
(c) He took them to a carnival.
(d) He got on the train one stop before their final destination.

4. What didn't Dad believe in?
(a) Resting on the Sabbath.
(b) Getting sick.
(c) God.
(d) Going to the Doctor.

5. If a child was rude while a guest was over for dinner, how did Dad respond?
(a) He ordered them to go straight to bed.
(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 made them stand and recite the Gettysburg Address.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Dad assign positions on the boat to the children?

2. When the family arrived to their vacation house, what did they receive in a package?

3. How did Lill make a male house guest feel at home?

4. When the children got measles, what did Dad do?

5. What concern did Mother have about giving birth at home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why were the children harassed at school?

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

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

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

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

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

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