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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of their home do the Herdman siblings play with in order to try to hurt one another?
(a) The garage door.
(b) The pool.
(c) The gutter.
(d) The roof.

2. Who beats up Charlie every day during Charlie's second grade year?
(a) Leroy.
(b) Imogene.
(c) Claude.
(d) Buster.

3. At what time of year is the usual pageant coordinator injured, leading to Mother's assumption of the role instead?
(a) A month before Thanksgiving.
(b) Three weeks before Christmas.
(c) Two weeks before Thanksgiving.
(d) A month after Thanksgiving.

4. Where other people have hydrangeas in their yards, the Herdmans have what?
(a) Rattlesnakes.
(b) Thorny roses.
(c) Poison ivy.
(d) Venus flytraps.

5. What is the name of the narrator's school?
(a) Warren G. Harding School.
(b) Woodrow Wilson School.
(c) Thomas Jefferson School.
(d) Abraham Lincoln School.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tactic does the narrator name as the best way to avoid contact with Imogene?

2. What task does Mother say she could do "with one hand tied behind" (16) her back?

3. As the injured former pageant coordinator emerges from her home, what is NOT a command she calls out?

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

5. The narrator describes the Herdman siblings as being all alike in appearance, except for what two elements?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mother at first feel about coordinating the Christmas pageant?

2. How does Mother come to be in charge of coordinating the pageant, rather than taking on some other role?

3. What evidence does the narrator provide for her conclusion that it is Charlie's fault that the Herdmans get involved in the Christmas pageant?

4. For what purpose does the author go out of her way to portray the Herdman children as unteachable?

5. What connection does the narrator make between the Herdman siblings and the movies?

6. For what reason do the Herdman siblings believe they have found evidence proving Charlie's promises of food at church to be valid?

7. What does Father say about the burning down of Fred Schneider's toolhouse?

8. What is the one virtue displayed by the Herdman children within the burned toolhouse incident?

9. What is the narrator's evidence for her claim that the "Herdmans were absolutely the worst kids in the the history of the world" (1)?

10. Describe one particular instance of the author's use of humor and examine its effect on the reader.

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