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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Reba toast Joe?
(a) She always enjoys company.
(b) She is welcoming him to Atlanta.
(c) He is an attractive man.
(d) He is a good speaker.

2. What does Sunny describe as a bunch of Jewish people trying to be Episcopalians?
(a) Ballyhoo.
(b) The Synagogue.
(c) Actors in movies.
(d) The people living on her street.

3. What does she tell him about her family?
(a) They love to have company come to visit.
(b) It is the only Jewish family on a socially mobile, very Protestant street.
(c) It is one of many Jewish families on the block.
(d) They are very strange, since they are not practicing Jews.

4. What is she reading?
(a) A magazine.
(b) Shakespeare sonnets.
(c) A novel.
(d) A book by a Communist writer.

5. To what does this statement lead?
(a) If he would like to go to Ballyhoo with Lala.
(b) What he would like for dinner next time he comes.
(c) If he has a girlfriend.
(d) A discussion of what goes on at Ballyhoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lala Levy doing as she decorates a Christmas tree while her aunt Reba watches and knits?

2. What does he tell her?

3. What does Joe do?

4. What does Joe say he is glad to do?

5. Why does Lala say the tree cannot have a star?

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