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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. Which of the following is not a reason that the family outing was a disaster?
(a) The car engine failed, and they could not drive home.
(b) The boys started goofing off.
(c) The girls were embarrassed by their clothes.
(d) Mother was not amused by Dad's antics.

2. How were the children expected to respond when they heard the whistle?
(a) They were to shout their name to be accounted for.
(b) They were to start their chores.
(c) They were to come as quickly as possible.
(d) They were to go to bed.

3. Which of the following is true about Dad's background?
(a) His father had a construction business and encouraged his son to follow the same career path.
(b) His father was a store owner and died very young.
(c) His mother was a passive woman and died very young.
(d) He was an orphan, because both of his parents died when he was very young.

4. Whom did the townspeople play a joke on?
(a) On the Sunday school teacher.
(b) On a newcomer who was connected to a national birth control organization.
(c) On Dad, because he was connected to a national hunting organization.
(d) On Mother, because she was usually so quiet and serious.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a reason Dad drove the children to advance quickly in school?

2. What did Mother and Dad disagree about?

3. What qualities about Mother are revealed in Chapter 7?

4. Which is an example of how Mother and Dad allowed the children to have a say in the running of the household?

5. What did Dad tell his family he had purchased, when really he had purchased a car?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Dad raised, and how did he become successful in business at a young age?

2. How did Mother and Dad each feel about religious training for the children?

3. What key elements of the book were introduced in the Preface of "Cheaper by the Dozen"?

4. How did Mother respond when a women mistakenly though the family was a group of orphans, and Dad played along?

5. By what method did Mother and Dad choose to run the household?

6. What happened when Dad attempted to build a cement bird bath, and how did he feel about it?

7. In what ways did Dad demonstrate his interest in organization and time-management at home?

8. How did Lill earn a pair of roller skates when she was eight years old?

9. What did Dad have a reputation for doing on family road trips, and how did Mother prepare for it?

10. What are two examples of ways in which Dad did not allow any time to be wasted for the children?

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