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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Father jokes that he had attended the pageant the year discussed by the narrator only to see what?
(a) His own bathrobe in the pageant.
(b) Charlie as Joseph.
(c) His bag of flour playing baby Jesus.
(d) Charlie as an angel.

3. The narrator states that her friend Alice had what kind of hands by age four?
(a) Detergent hands.
(b) Fidgety hands.
(c) Arthritic hands.
(d) Worried hands.

4. Where other people have grass in their yards, the Herdmans have what?
(a) Rattlesnakes.
(b) Tumbleweeds.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Shards of glass.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The congregation of the narrator's church has a food drive every year for what cause?

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

3. What food does the narrator say the Sunday School kids get on Easter Sunday?

4. What object does Imogene manage to get from Wanda by blackmailing her?

5. In the annual Christmas pageant, children classified as the biggest boys have traditionally taken which roles?

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