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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: Test C

Directions: Read each question carefully. Circle the letter of the choice that best answers each question.

1. What lesson did the Herdmans learn from the fire?
   1. Don't play with matches and gasoline.
   2. Where there's a fire there are free doughnuts.
   3. Don't admit anything.

2. Why did teachers keep promoting the Herdmans although they never learned anything?
   1. The school never kept anyone back.
   2. Mrs. Herdman went to the School Board.
   3. No teacher wanted two Herdmans in a room the same year.

3. Why couldn't Mrs. Armstrong run the Christmas pageant this year?
   1. She fell and broke her leg.
   2. She knew the Herdman kids wanted to be in it.
   3. She had to break in a new husband.

4. What did Charlie like best about Sunday school?
   1. He learned new songs about Jesus.
   2. There were no Herdmans there.
   3. It gave him a good feeling.

5. Gladys Herdman told Alice Wendleken not to volunteer to be Mary, or ____.
   1. she'd stick beans up her nose
   2. she'd stick a pussy willow down her ear
   3. she'd sic the one-eyed cat on her

6. At the first rehearsal for the pageant, what did the Herdmans hear for the first time?
   1. they were being taken away by Child Welfare
   2. they were welcome to be there
   3. the Christmas story

7. The air in the girls' bathroom was all blue because ____.
   1. Imogene was in there smoking cigars
   2. the ladies sneaked in there to smoke
   3. Imogene was in there smoking cigarettes

8. Why did Mrs. Hopkins get mad at Rev. Hopkins?
   1. He ran out into the street in his pajamas and bathrobe.
   2. He tried to cancel the pageant.
   3. He said the applesauce cake was dry.

9. What did Imogene do during the pageant?
   1. bossed everyone around
   2. kicked Alice
   3. cried

10. What was the narrator's name?
    1. Barbara
    2. Mary
    3. the story doesn't say

Excerpted from Sue Jones Erlenbusch's Favorite Books Activities Kits.