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

2. Who is Sylvan?
(a) The boy next door.
(b) Sunny and Lala's cousin.
(c) The boy with whom Boo wants Lala to go to Ballyhoo.
(d) Lala's brother.

3. What does Boo ask Adolph to pay attention to, rather than what's going on halfway across the world?
(a) What is going on in Georgia.
(b) What is gong on in Atlanta.
(c) What is going on in the United States.
(d) What is going on in his own home.

4. Why does Reba say that Lala came home from Michigan?
(a) She had flunked out.
(b) She did not have enough money.
(c) She had no friends.
(d) She was homesick.

5. How does Lala respond when Boo says that Lala has to take her place in society?
(a) Because they are Jews, they have their own place in society.
(b) They already have a place, because they live on a Protestant street.
(c) Because they are not practicing Jews, they have a place with the Christians.
(d) Because they're Jews, they have no place in society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when Lala went to a Passover supper once?

2. What was his major?

3. How does Sunny respond when Lala asks how they know each other?

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

5. Who is Sunny?

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