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

The narrator begins the story of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by describing how the Herdman children had burned down Fred Schneider's dilapidated old toolhouse. She states that she does not think they had done it on purpose, but that "maybe they did" (1). She adds, "After all, it was a Saturday, and not much going on" (1).

2. 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)?

As evidence for her claim that the Herdmans are very badly behaved children, the narrator states, "They lied and stole and smoked cigars (even the girls) and talked dirty and hit little kids and cussed their teachers and took the name of the Lord in vain and set fire to Fred Shoemaker's old broken-down toolhouse" (1).

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