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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the narrator name as the character who always plays the role of Mary?
(a) Gladys.
(b) Imogene.
(c) Herself.
(d) Alice.

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

3. What is Charlie's reply when he is asked what he likes about Sunday School?
(a) He says that there are no Herdmans there.
(b) He says that he likes how quiet and peaceful it is.
(c) He says that he likes the feeling he gets when he goes there.
(d) He says that he likes to learn songs about Jesus.

4. What does Alice do with the information she has about the Herdman siblings' involvement with the fire department being called to the church?
(a) She tells Ralph.
(b) She tells Reverend Hopkins.
(c) She tells the narrator.
(d) She tells her mother.

5. What symptom does Imogene tell the school nurse her brother Ollie has been displaying?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Black bruises all over his body.
(c) Flaky skin all over his body.
(d) Red spots all over his body.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Father feel about attending the Christmas pageant?

2. By the time all of the parts are assigned in the narrative, most of the actors have what last name?

3. At what time does the pageant begin?

4. The Herdman family lives over what type of structure?

5. For what reason does the narrator say Miss Brandel had passed Claude on to second grade even though he had not mastered the required skills?

(see the answer key)

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