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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what do Sunny and Adolph chat?
(a) Joe.
(b) The way they used to play cards when Sunny was little.
(c) The weather.
(d) Adolph's job.

2. What does Boo tell Adolph he should have remembered?
(a) To tell her when guests are coming, so she can make enough food.
(b) To buy meat for her to cook.
(c) Their cook has been home sick all week and called her so she can be ready. .
(d) Their oven is not working, so dinner will be cold.

3. What does Boo suggest that Lala should have on her mind?
(a) Other things, such as what gifts she would like for Christmas.
(b) Other things, such as her school work.
(c) Other things, such as what she will sing in the Christmas pagent.
(d) Other things, such as who is going to take her to Ballyhoo in a couple of weeks.

4. In the story Reba tells about a former neighbor, who boarded a train to start her second year at college, and did what?
(a) Began to work for the train company.
(b) Never came home.
(c) Ran up and down the aisles of the train with her clothes off.
(d) Had to be the train conductor.

5. What does Adolph look at Joe and wonder?
(a) Where Joe's family is located.
(b) Why Lala is interested in this man.
(c) Why Joe is still here.
(d) Why Boo would think Joe would be interested in the Ballyhoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will Joe Farkas, a young man from New York, be taking over?

2. What does Boo say as Lala storms up to her room telling them all to stop looking at her?

3. What does Sunny say about reading her book?

4. What does Adolph do as Reba and Boo clear the table?

5. The next morning, what are Reba and Adolph doing when Boo comes in with the morning paper?

(see the answer key)

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