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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a reason the narrator names for her friend Alice always playing the role of Mary in the pageant?
(a) She has a loud voice.
(b) She is holy-looking.
(c) She is smart.
(d) She is neat and clean.

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

3. What proclamation does Mother make about Charlie's comment about his favorite part of Sunday School?
(a) It is a practical sentiment.
(b) It is not a very Christian sentiment.
(c) It is a heartwarming sentiment.
(d) Hearing it made her prouder of Charlie than she had ever been.

4. Father jokes that he had attended the pageant the year discussed by the narrator only to see what?
(a) His bag of flour playing baby Jesus.
(b) Charlie as Joseph.
(c) Charlie as an angel.
(d) His own bathrobe in the pageant.

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

6. How often does the whole Sunday school go to church and perform a special act during the first 15 minutes of the service to
(a) Every December.
(b) Every week.
(c) Every month.
(d) Every three months.

7. What information does Imogene collect about her classmates that she then uses to blackmail them to get things she wants?
(a) Their deepest fears.
(b) Their parents' annual income.
(c) Their heights.
(d) Their weights.

8. The neighbors around the toolhouse had been worried that it would attract what types of animals, prior to burning to the ground at the hands of the Herdman siblings?
(a) Rats.
(b) Possums.
(c) Raccoons.
(d) Mice.

9. How does Father feel about attending the Christmas pageant?
(a) He likes to help with the stagecraft for the pageant, but then he rarely attends the pageant itself.
(b) He looks forward to the pageant every year.
(c) He does not want to attend the pageant.
(d) He only wants to attend the pageant to use his new video camera.

10. The Herdman family lives over what type of structure?
(a) A bar.
(b) A clothing store.
(c) A metal workshop.
(d) A garage.

11. How do the narrator and her little brother Charlie feel about being in the Christmas pageant?
(a) They do not want to be in the pageant.
(b) They cannot wait to be in the pageant.
(c) They only like to be in the pageant so that their grandmother can fly in to see it.
(d) They only like to be in the pageant to get Mother's attention.

12. Who usually coordinates the Christmas pageant?
(a) Mrs. Robinson.
(b) Mrs. Freeborn.
(c) Mrs. Wendelken.
(d) Mrs. Armstrong.

13. In what grade is Charlie during the events of the Christmas pageant focused on by the narrator?
(a) Second.
(b) Fourth.
(c) First.
(d) Third.

14. The narrator states that on the first Sunday the Herdmans came to Sunday School, they did not sing or say prayers. What activity does she say she knows the Herdmans had done, however?
(a) She knows that they learned something.
(b) She knows that they hurt some people.
(c) She knows that they did not feel sorry.
(d) She knows that they made some money.

15. What proclamation does Father make about Charlie's comment about his favorite part of Sunday School?
(a) Hearing it made him prouder of Charlie than he had ever been.
(b) It is a practical sentiment.
(c) It is a heartwarming sentiment.
(d) It is not a very Christian sentiment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item from Charlie's lunch does Leroy keep stealing?

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

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

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

5. At what time of year is the usual pageant coordinator injured, leading to Mother's assumption of the role instead?

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