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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of expression does Alice have on her face when she answers Mother's query about Alice's behavior during the assigning of pageant roles?
(a) She looks sheepish.
(b) She looks mad.
(c) She looks scared.
(d) She looks uncertain.

2. What does the sign in the Herdmans' yard say?
(a) Room for rent.
(b) Keep off the grass.
(c) Beware of the Cat.
(d) Wet paint.

3. When Imogene tells Albert that she has seen the nurse's note about him, how does she say he will be spending the following summer?
(a) Spending the summer at fat camp.
(b) Spending the summer at aikido camp.
(c) Spending the summer making up work in summer school.
(d) Spending the summer in physical therapy for scoliosis.

4. In what location does Imogene ask the narrator how to check out a book from the library?
(a) The playground.
(b) The classroom.
(c) The gym.
(d) The library.

5. The congregation of the narrator's church has a food drive every year for what cause?
(a) For the Senior Home.
(b) For the children's hospital.
(c) For the Orphans Home.
(d) For the Boys and Girls Club.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mother tell Charlie when he says he does not want to be a shepherd and will become sick if she forces him?

2. What happens to rob the pageant of its real infant playing the role of Jesus?

3. What action eventually taken by a Herdman sibling is said by the narrator to be "the one great big sinful thing Alice" (66) had been hoping for?

4. How does Father feel about attending the Christmas pageant?

5. To what day does the narrator look forward in order to get a break from the Herdmans?

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