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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The congregation of the narrator's church has a food drive every year for what cause?
(a) For the Senior Home.
(b) For the Boys and Girls Club.
(c) For the Orphans Home.
(d) For the children's hospital.

2. What question does Imogene ask the narrator when the narrator says that to get a library card, you must sign your name?
(a) Imogene asks if you have to sign your own name.
(b) Imogene asks if you can sign using your nickname.
(c) Imogene asks if you have to write your name in cursive.
(d) Imogene asks if she has to sign both her first and last names.

3. What is the true source of the smoke that causes one of the women in the Ladies' Aid group to call the fire department?
(a) Imogene's cigar.
(b) Ollie's chemistry set.
(c) Claude's cigarette.
(d) Gladys's pipe.

4. What does the narrator mean when she says Mother told her "not to be so fresh" (26)?
(a) Mother told the narrator not be so quick to judge people.
(b) Mother told the narrator not to talk back.
(c) Mother told the narrator not to use so much hand soap.
(d) Mother told the narrator not to be so prim and proper.

5. Which of the Wise Men does Leroy play in the pageant?
(a) Melchior.
(b) Abednigo.
(c) Balthazar.
(d) Caspar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the usual coordinator of the pageant that then requires a new coordinator?

2. In the pageant incarnation described at the center of the narrative, who plays the role of Joseph?

3. Whose name does Mother NOT call when she is trying to make sure that no one else is interested in playing the role of Mary?

4. 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?

5. What evidence is there for the conclusion that Mother had been a good choice to run a pageant full of Herdmans?

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