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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Alice's reply when Mother asks her the reason for her behavior during the choosing of parts?
(a) She says that her mother had wanted her to make a change.
(b) She says that she does not know.
(c) She says that Gladys had threatened her with violence.
(d) She says that she has stage fright.

2. The narrator states that Imogene never learns anything except what?
(a) Profane words and secrets about everyone.
(b) The multiplication tables and how to pick pockets.
(c) How to tie knots and how to hurt animals.
(d) Slang words and the multiplication tables.

3. What is Charlie's reply when he is asked what he likes about Sunday School?
(a) He says that he likes how quiet and peaceful it is.
(b) He says that he likes to learn songs about Jesus.
(c) He says that there are no Herdmans there.
(d) He says that he likes the feeling he gets when he goes there.

4. The narrator begins the novel by declaring that "the Herdmans were absolutely the" what "kids in the history of the world" (1)?
(a) Yuckiest.
(b) Dumbest.
(c) Worst.
(d) Poorest.

5. 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 aikido camp.
(b) Spending the summer at fat camp.
(c) Spending the summer in physical therapy for scoliosis.
(d) Spending the summer making up work in summer school.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states that on the first Sunday the Herdmans came to Sunday School, they did not sing or say prayers. What activity does she say she knows the Herdmans had done, however?

2. Whom does the narrator name as the character who always plays the role of Mary?

3. When the school nurse asks Imogene whether Ollie is in bed, Imogene replies that Ollie is where?

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

5. What is the name of the school nurse?

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