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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. The narrator describes the former pageant coordinator as doing everything at church except what activity?
(a) Reading palms.
(b) Giving communion.
(c) Preaching.
(d) Genuflecting.

2. In the annual Christmas pageant, children in intermediate grades have traditionally taken which roles?
(a) Donkeys.
(b) Wise Men.
(c) Shepherds.
(d) Angels.

3. Why do all of the shepherds get nervous when Mother mentions the Angel of the Lord?
(a) They are scared of Alice, the girl playing the Angel of the Lord.
(b) They are scared of the narrator, the girl playing the Angel of the Lord.
(c) They are scared of Gladys, the girl playing the Angel of the Lord.
(d) They are scared of Imogene, the girl playing the Angel of the Lord.

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

5. To what day does the narrator look forward in order to get a break from the Herdmans?
(a) Fridays.
(b) Saturdays.
(c) Sundays.
(d) Mondays.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. Armstrong announces that however the pageant turns out, she will accept the what?

2. 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?

3. What do the Herdman siblings do once the fire department arrives at the church?

4. In the pageant incarnation described at the center of the narrative, who plays the role of Joseph?

5. When Father asks his family what had "finally happened to Herod" (50), what do they decide is the answer?

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