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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the pageant incarnation described at the center of the narrative, who plays the role of the Angel of the Lord?
(a) Alice.
(b) Gladys.
(c) Imogene.
(d) The narrator.

2. What proclamation does Father make about Charlie's comment about his favorite part of Sunday School?
(a) It is a practical sentiment.
(b) It is a heartwarming sentiment.
(c) It is not a very Christian sentiment.
(d) Hearing it made him prouder of Charlie than he had ever been.

3. As the injured former pageant coordinator emerges from her home, what is NOT a command she calls out?
(a) She tells them to inform the Ladies' Aid Bazaar committee that she will miss the meeting.
(b) She tells them to turn off her clothes iron.
(c) She tells them to call her husband.
(d) She tells them to turn off her stove.

4. To what does the narrator compare "those South American fish that strip your bones clean in three minutes flat" (6)?
(a) The Herdman siblings eating lunch in the cafeteria.
(b) The Herdman siblings attending the ice cream social.
(c) The Herdman siblings' treatment of their teachers in school.
(d) The Herdman siblings attending the Firefighters' party.

5. 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) Worst.
(c) Poorest.
(d) Dumbest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does Ollie have to have surgically removed from his ear?

2. What part does Alice tell the narrator that she hopes the narrator gets again because the narrator is so good at the part?

3. Who does NOT volunteer to be a Wise Man in the pageant in the year described by the narrator?

4. The narrator describes the traditional Christmas pageant prior to this year as "people shuffling around" (17) the stage wearing all but which of the following items?

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

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