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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. The neighbors around the toolhouse had been worried that it would attract what types of animals, prior to burning to the ground at the hands of the Herdman siblings?
(a) Raccoons.
(b) Mice.
(c) Possums.
(d) Rats.

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

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

4. How does Father feel about attending the Christmas pageant?
(a) He does not want to attend the pageant.
(b) He likes to help with the stagecraft for the pageant, but then he rarely attends the pageant itself.
(c) He looks forward to the pageant every year.
(d) He only wants to attend the pageant to use his new video camera.

5. How many children are in the Herdman family?
(a) Eight.
(b) Five.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states that her friend Alice had what kind of hands by age four?

2. How often does the whole Sunday school go to church and perform a special act during the first 15 minutes of the service to

3. In the annual Christmas pageant, children in intermediate grades have traditionally taken which roles?

4. What preparations does Claude make when he brings the cat to Show-and-Tell?

5. When Mother is explaining the process of the pageant, what does the narrator think about how Mrs. Armstrong would feel about Mother's explanation?

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