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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. When Mother hears the doorbell during her conversation with Mrs. Armstrong, who is at the door?
2. What happens to rob the pageant of its real infant playing the role of Jesus?
3. What is NOT a role assigned to the older boys and girls without major parts in the pageant?
4. Which character voices the concern that no one may come to see the pageant?
5. How much had the character who always played Joseph unsuccessfully offered another character to play the role of Joseph instead?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is foreshadowing employed within the last two sentences of Chapter Six?
2. In what ways does Mother display the qualities of fortitude and perseverance?
3. Discuss how the theme of appearance versus reality appears in Chapter Five.
4. For what purpose does the author include an allusion to General Custer in the last section of Chapter Six?
5. Discuss the author's purpose for including Alice's character within the narrative.
6. For what reasons does the pageant not have a real baby to play Jesus?
7. What questions are raised in the narrator's mind about the Nativity story as a result of her interactions with the Herdmans?
8. How does the narrator portray her friend Alice's personification of Mrs. Armstrong's saying, "There are no parts, only small actors" (21)?
9. Discuss the significance of Mrs. Armstrong's comment to Mother when she says, "And then I always remind them that there are no small parts, only small actors" (25).
10. What evidence does the author provide for the conclusion that having the first meeting about the pageant after church is a poor decision?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How might Barbara Robinson’s novel The Best Christmas Pageant Ever be classified as a coming-of-age story?
Essay Topic 2
How is the topic of religion treated within Barbara Robinson’s novel The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and how does its treatment relate to the book's depicted messages?
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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