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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Martha's two canaries during their summer travel?

2. What didn't Dad believe in?

3. What did the children consider to be a great triumph at the dinner table?

4. What did Dad do every summer on their family vacation?

5. How did Dad behave on the boat?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why were the children harassed at school?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How many of the children were born at home, and what was Mother's only concern about delivering them at home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the book, Dad displayed a unique balance between his sense of humor and love for practical jokes and his leadership as a strict taskmaster. Discuss Dad's personality and how it influenced his family.

Essay Topic 2

While Mother came from a well-to-do, reserved family, the book shares how they were very accepting of Dad's boisterous personality and the lively Gilbreth clan. Discuss the irony of Mother's family's background with their acceptance of the Gilbreth family. Cite three examples of their love and acceptance.

Essay Topic 3

Mother and Dad ran the household like a business and diligently worked to instill a strong work ethic into the children. Discuss what it means to have a strong work ethic. Cite three examples of Mother and Dad striving to instill this trait into the children.

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