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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Mother feel about Mrs. Armstrong's announcement that she does not know how the pageant will turn out?
2. What is Alice's reply when Mother asks her the reason for her behavior during the choosing of parts?
3. In the pageant incarnation described at the center of the narrative, who plays the role of Mary?
4. Mrs. Armstrong announces that however the pageant turns out, she will accept the what?
5. What reason does Charlie's friend Hobie say he cannot be a shepherd?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what ways does Mother display the qualities of fortitude and perseverance?
2. For what purpose does the author include an allusion to General Custer in the last section of Chapter Six?
3. Discuss the significance of Mother's comment when she states to Father, "No, their chief instinct was to get Mary and the baby out of the barn. But even so, it was Herod they wanted to do away with, and Mary or Joseph. They picked out the right villain -- that must mean something" (50).
4. What connections does the author draw between the Herdmans and the Holy Family?
5. For what reasons does the pageant not have a real baby to play Jesus?
6. Discuss a moment in the narrative when the narrator thinks that her friend Alice is behaving badly.
7. In what ways does the author depict Father as a funny man?
8. Discuss the author's purpose for including Alice's character within the narrative.
9. How does the narrator portray her friend Alice's personification of Mrs. Armstrong's saying, "There are no parts, only small actors" (21)?
10. Discuss how Mother's character is depicted as having unending supplies of patience and compassion.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the theme of forgiveness function within the novel and what is the author's message regarding this theme?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the author's choice to tell the story of Barbara Robinson’s novel The Best Christmas Pageant Ever using the first person point-of-view. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are the author's intended and invoked effects on the reader?
Essay Topic 3
Sensory details are used frequently within Barbara Robinson’s novel The Best Christmas Pageant Ever to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used by the author affect the characterization present within each of the three scenes.
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