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

2. When the narrator describes how many people in town end up attending the pageant overall, for what purpose does she say those people attend?
(a) To see what the Herdman siblings would do.
(b) To see what Charlie would do.
(c) To see what Reverend Hopkins would do.
(d) To see what Elmer would do.

3. Who does NOT volunteer to be a Wise Man in the pageant in the year described by the narrator?
(a) Claude.
(b) Leroy.
(c) Elmer.
(d) Ollie.

4. To what does the narrator compare "those South American fish that strip your bones clean in three minutes flat" (6)?
(a) The Herdman siblings eating lunch in the cafeteria.
(b) The Herdman siblings attending the ice cream social.
(c) The Herdman siblings' treatment of their teachers in school.
(d) The Herdman siblings attending the Firefighters' party.

5. 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 an angel.
(c) His bag of flour playing baby Jesus.
(d) Charlie as Joseph.

Short Answer Questions

1. Everyone not given a major part in the Christmas pageant takes on what role?

2. What reason does Mother finally give Mrs. Armstrong so that she can get off the phone and cook the pork chops?

3. Miss Graebner tells Mother that she can now retire because she has heard everything. What has she heard?

4. What does the narrator say about the number of people in town attending the pageant in question?

5. In the annual Christmas pageant, children in intermediate grades have traditionally taken which roles?

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