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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a tea party was thrown for Mother, what was required of the children?
(a) They had to dress in formal clothes and sit still at the table.
(b) They had to go play at the neighbor's house until the guests were gone.
(c) They all had to take long naps before the guests arrived.
(d) They had to dress in fine, uncomfortable clothes, and wait in the garden.

2. When a boy climbed a tree to spy on Ernestine, what did she do?
(a) She shook the tree branch until he fell down.
(b) She enlisted the support of her younger siblings to scare him away.
(c) She called for Dad, who scared him away.
(d) She was flattered and felt beautiful.

3. How did Lill display a strong work ethic at the age of eight?
(a) She started a lemonade stand business so she could buy some roller skates.
(b) She asked a store owner if she could earn a pair of roller skates by working around his shop.
(c) She refused to allow her parents to buy her some roller skates, because she wanted to earn them.
(d) She completed a very tough chore to earn a little money toward some roller skates.

4. What was it about Dad's photography that scared the youngest Gilbreth children?
(a) The loud sounds the camera made.
(b) His use of flash powder.
(c) His photographic laboratory in the barn.
(d) The process he used to develop the photographs.

5. Who drove a motorcycle?
(a) Frank, Jr.
(b) Martha's boyfriend.
(c) Anne's boyfriend.
(d) Ernestine's boyfriend.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. If a child was rude while a guest was over for dinner, how did Dad respond?

3. Although Dad was a strict taskmaster, this was tempered by __________.

4. Whom did the townspeople play a joke on?

5. Why is Chapter 5 entitled "Mister Chairman"?

(see the answer key)

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