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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. 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 three months.
(b) Every week.
(c) Every month.
(d) Every December.

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

3. The narrator describes the traditional Christmas pageant prior to this year as "people shuffling around" (17) the stage wearing all but which of the following items?
(a) Bathrobes.
(b) Bedsheets.
(c) Bent halos.
(d) Sharp wings.

4. What food does the narrator say the Sunday School kids get on Easter Sunday?
(a) Scalloped potatoes.
(b) Scrambled eggs.
(c) Marshmallows.
(d) Jelly beans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did the burned building belong before the Herdmans burned it down?

2. What object does Imogene manage to get from Wanda by blackmailing her?

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

4. How often are the children required to visit the health room to get weighed and measured?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author employ foreshadowing at the end of Chapter Two?

2. In what ways does the author employ hyperbole within Chapter One?

3. What simile does the narrator use to describe the way in which the Herdman children move through Woodrow Wilson School?

4. What level of involvement had Mother expected to have in the pageant prior to taking over as coordinator?

5. 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)?

6. For what purpose does the author use the allusion to "a day of rest" (21) in Chapter Two?

7. Describe several aspects of the Christmas pageant, as it had been presented every year before the events described in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.

8. For what reason does Father tell Mother he does not want to attend this year's Christmas pageant?

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

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

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