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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the school nurse?
(a) Miss Cranston.
(b) Miss Johnson.
(c) Miss Hemphill.
(d) Miss Kentucky.

2. What is NOT listed among the activities performed by the Sunday School children when they attend church services?
(a) Singing a song.
(b) Acting out a parable.
(c) Reciting Bible verses.
(d) Reading the Gospel aloud.

3. In the annual Christmas pageant, children in intermediate grades have traditionally taken which roles?
(a) Shepherds.
(b) Angels.
(c) Wise Men.
(d) Donkeys.

4. To whom did the burned building belong before the Herdmans burned it down?
(a) Mr. Herdman.
(b) Mr. Shoemaker.
(c) Mrs. Shears.
(d) The high school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare "those South American fish that strip your bones clean in three minutes flat" (6)?

2. Where other people have hydrangeas in their yards, the Herdmans have what?

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

4. Before Charlie stands up to give his reason for liking Sunday School, how many other kids are said to have responded already?

5. The narrator states that Elmer, the minister's son, has always traditionally taken what role within the pageant?

(see the answer key)

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