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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how many years has Miss Graebner been a librarian?
(a) 8.
(b) 38.
(c) 16.
(d) 46.

2. By the time all of the parts are assigned in the narrative, most of the actors have what last name?
(a) Hopkins.
(b) Wendelken.
(c) Armstrong.
(d) Herdman.

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

4. At the end of Mother's story to Father about the first pageant rehearsal, what conclusion does she draw about the Herdman siblings?
(a) They have good instincts.
(b) They have dim futures.
(c) They are sincere in their interest in acting.
(d) They will surely ruin the pageant.

5. The pageant's dress rehearsal takes place the night before what other event?
(a) The rummage sale.
(b) The bake sale.
(c) The opening night of the pageant.
(d) The pot-luck dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What statement does Mother make that causes the narrator to describe her words as "the biggest" of "all the lies she'd told so far" (68)?

2. What object does Ollie have to have surgically removed from his ear?

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

4. When Imogene tells Albert that she has seen the nurse's note about him, how does she say he will be spending the following summer?

5. Father jokes that he had attended the pageant the year discussed by the narrator only to see what?

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