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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rule is enacted during Show-and-Tell after Claude Herdman's participation?
(a) No one can perform acrobatics for Show-and-Tell.
(b) No one can bring living things to Show-and-Tell.
(c) No one can bring noisy things to Show-and-Tell.
(d) No one can bring money to Show-and-Tell.

2. What preparations does Claude make when he brings the cat to Show-and-Tell?
(a) He shaves the cat.
(b) He dyes the cat a vibrant shade of purple.
(c) He gives the cat a bath.
(d) He lets the cat go hungry for two days.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How often are the children required to visit the health room to get weighed and measured?

2. What kind of building is the only one the Herdmans had managed to burn all the way to the ground?

3. What tactic does the narrator name as the best way to avoid contact with Imogene?

4. The Herdman family lives at the bottom of what type of topographical element?

5. Prior to Imogene's announcement about the note she has seen about Albert in the nurse's book, how does Albert think he will spend the following summer?

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