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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What evidence is there for the conclusion that Mother had been a good choice to run a pageant full of Herdmans?
(a) She had studied acting in college and knows how to handle difficult actors.
(b) She is very patient and explains everything to them so they can understand the story.
(c) She is tough and does not take any mouthing off from the Herdman kids.
(d) She is a large, intimidating woman who yells a lot.

2. What does the narrator say about the prediction that no would come to see the pageant?
(a) She says the person had been partially correct.
(b) She says the person had been right.
(c) She says that the person could not possibly believe their own luck.
(d) She says the person had been wrong.

3. What method does Imogene tell Mother she can use to get a real baby to play Jesus?
(a) She can kidnap a baby.
(b) She can borrow her neighbor's baby.
(c) She can ask her mother to have another baby.
(d) She can put an ad in the newspaper.

4. As the injured former pageant coordinator emerges from her home, what is NOT a command she calls out?
(a) She tells them to inform the Ladies' Aid Bazaar committee that she will miss the meeting.
(b) She tells them to call her husband.
(c) She tells them to turn off her stove.
(d) She tells them to turn off her clothes iron.

5. When the narrator states how she has always felt about Herod, what is something she does NOT say?
(a) Herod was a villain.
(b) Herod was somebody in the Bible.
(c) Herod was a king.
(d) Herod was just a name.

Short Answer Questions

1. The smallest children in Sunday School class usually sing what song when attending church services?

2. According to the narrator, Imogene and Ralph playing Mary and Joseph and standing somewhat forlornly in the doorway look like members of what group of people?

3. At the end of Mother's story to Father about the first pageant rehearsal, what conclusion does she draw about the Herdman siblings?

4. Which character voices the concern that no one may come to see the pageant?

5. What does the sign in the Herdmans' yard say?

(see the answer key)

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