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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. What might the narrator of "Christmas Means Giving" give his wife for a stocking stuffer?
(a) Hedge polisher.
(b) Fur-lined jeans.
(c) New car.
(d) Bowling ball shiner.

2. Tiny Tim's performance rivals the ________ for brightness.
(a) Exit sign.
(b) Moonlight.
(c) Spotlight.
(d) Street light.

3. What body part does Doug Cottingham donate first?
(a) A lung.
(b) A kidney.
(c) An eye.
(d) A spleen.

4. Thaddeus Bristol compares the three wise men to what in one performance?
(a) Three amigoes.
(b) Three babies.
(c) Three Stooges.
(d) Three birds on a fence.

5. What was the name of the actor who played Scrooge?
(a) Hershel.
(b) Milton.
(c) Wilbur.
(d) Benny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jim Timothy's interns only open letters from where?

2. Beth makes a necklace out of __________ in "Christmas Means Giving."

3. Who is the attorney of the mother her performed surgery on her own son in "Based Upon a True Story"?

4. According to Jim Timothy the child whose mother performed surgery was dying of _________.

5. What does Thaddeus Bristol refer to the performers as at Jane Snow-Hernandez Elementary School?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Cottingham's usually send out as a Christmas card?

2. What has been the trajectory of Jim Timothy's career?

3. What is the purpose of the narrator's Christmas card in "Christmas Means Giving"?

4. What did Thaddeus Bristol have to say about the performances of Mary and Joseph in the Sacred Heart Elementary school play?

5. How does Thaddeus Bristol rate Becky Michaels as a director?

6. What is the premise of "A Reindeer's Gift"?

7. What is Thaddeus Bristol's complaint about the performance at Sacred Heart Elementary?

8. Who is Jim Timothy?

9. Why is Jim Timothy interested in one of the church members?

10. What do the Cottingham's and then narrator give to the beggar starting on the next Thanksgiving?

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