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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. What task does Mother say she could do "with one hand tied behind" (16) her back?
(a) Run the bake sale.
(b) Coordinate the Christmas pageant.
(c) Run the pot-luck supper.
(d) Take over as the chairman of the Ladies' Aid Bazaar.

2. Mrs. Wendleken uses what adjective to describe Mother's decision to allow a Herdman to play the role of Mary?
(a) Immoral.
(b) Insane.
(c) Heretical.
(d) Sacrilegious.

3. The narrator states that Elmer, the minister's son, has always traditionally taken what role within the pageant?
(a) A wise man.
(b) An angel.
(c) Joseph.
(d) A shepherd.

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

5. When the narrator states how she has always felt about Herod, what is something she does NOT say?
(a) Herod was a king.
(b) Herod was just a name.
(c) Herod was somebody in the Bible.
(d) Herod was a villain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action eventually taken by a Herdman sibling is said by the narrator to be "the one great big sinful thing Alice" (66) had been hoping for?

2. What kind of building is the only one the Herdmans had managed to burn all the way to the ground?

3. The narrator is in the same grade as which of the Herdman siblings?

4. What kind of expression does Alice have on her face when she answers Mother's query about Alice's behavior during the assigning of pageant roles?

5. What rule is enacted during Show-and-Tell after Claude Herdman's participation?

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