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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is NOT a quality of the Herdman's cat?
(a) It it missing one leg.
(b) It has a broken tail.
(c) It has one short leg.
(d) It has one eye.
2. How often are the children required to visit the health room to get weighed and measured?
(a) Once a year.
(b) Once a month.
(c) Once a season.
(d) Twice a year.
3. The narrator describes the former pageant coordinator as doing everything at church except what activity?
(a) Preaching.
(b) Genuflecting.
(c) Giving communion.
(d) Reading palms.
4. Where other people have hydrangeas in their yards, the Herdmans have what?
(a) Rattlesnakes.
(b) Venus flytraps.
(c) Poison ivy.
(d) Thorny roses.
5. What part does Alice tell the narrator that she hopes the narrator gets again because the narrator is so good at the part?
(a) Mary.
(b) Member of the angel choir.
(c) Shepherd.
(d) Angel of the Lord.
6. Who is the oldest child in the Herdman family?
(a) Gladys.
(b) Ollie.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Leroy.
7. In the annual Christmas pageant, children in primary grades have traditionally taken which roles?
(a) Angels.
(b) Wise Men.
(c) Shepherds.
(d) Donkeys.
8. What proclamation does Mother make about Charlie's comment about his favorite part of Sunday School?
(a) It is a heartwarming sentiment.
(b) Hearing it made her prouder of Charlie than she had ever been.
(c) It is a practical sentiment.
(d) It is not a very Christian sentiment.
9. In what type of container does Claude bring the Herdmans' cat to school?
(a) A gunny sack.
(b) A metal barrel.
(c) A cardboard box.
(d) A suitcase.
10. Everyone not given a major part in the Christmas pageant takes on what role?
(a) The innkeepers.
(b) The angel choir.
(c) The worshippers.
(d) The tourists.
11. What information does Imogene collect about her classmates that she then uses to blackmail them to get things she wants?
(a) Their weights.
(b) Their parents' annual income.
(c) Their deepest fears.
(d) Their heights.
12. The mailman states that he thinks that the Herdmans' cat is not a cat at all, but is actually what type of animal?
(a) A jackal.
(b) A bobcat.
(c) A puma.
(d) A wolverine.
13. What is the name of the narrator's school?
(a) Abraham Lincoln School.
(b) Woodrow Wilson School.
(c) Warren G. Harding School.
(d) Thomas Jefferson School.
14. The narrator describes the Herdman siblings as being all alike in appearance, except for what two elements?
(a) Their sizes and their ages.
(b) Their sizes and the locations of their bruises.
(c) Their genders and their hair lengths.
(d) Their scowls and their sharp elbows.
15. What symptom does Imogene tell the school nurse her brother Ollie has been displaying?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Black bruises all over his body.
(c) Flaky skin all over his body.
(d) Red spots all over his body.
Short Answer Questions
1. What tactic does the narrator name as the best way to avoid contact with Imogene?
2. At what time of year is the usual pageant coordinator injured, leading to Mother's assumption of the role instead?
3. What preparations does Claude make when he brings the cat to Show-and-Tell?
4. The narrator states that her friend Alice had what kind of hands by age four?
5. As the injured former pageant coordinator emerges from her home, what is NOT a command she calls out?
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