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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 is NOT a quality of the Herdman's cat?
(a) It has a broken tail.
(b) It has one eye.
(c) It has one short leg.
(d) It it missing one leg.

2. The Herdman family lives at the bottom of what type of topographical element?
(a) A mountain.
(b) A hill.
(c) A canyon.
(d) A river.

3. What is the single thing Mother names as the only worry someone has when planning the task she says she could complete one-handed?
(a) Pricing items for the Ladies' Aid Bazaar.
(b) Running the cash register at the bake sale.
(c) Choosing the parts for the pageant.
(d) Making sure the pot-luck dinner serves more than just meatloaf.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Prior to Imogene's announcement about the note she has seen about Albert in the nurse's book, how does Albert think he will spend the following summer?

2. What is NOT listed among the activities performed by the Sunday School children when they attend church services?

3. What proclamation does Father make about Charlie's comment about his favorite part of Sunday School?

4. In the annual Christmas pageant, children classified as the biggest boys have traditionally taken which roles?

5. To what does the narrator compare "those South American fish that strip your bones clean in three minutes flat" (6)?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss the author's use of vivid imagery within the scene of the Herdmans' first time at Sunday school.

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

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

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

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

7. The narrator begins the narrative of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by describing what event?

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

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

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

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